Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced the next phases of expansion to build two more nitrogen plants serving Samsung Electronics’ giga fab in Pyeongtaek City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Air Products was awarded a major contract by Samsung Electronics…
The following was received by the editors from the authors of "Pump Sizing and Selection Made Easy," Dr. Liu, Joseph Sarver and Blake Finkenauer: We thank Mr. David Karesh for his comments, and we have made minor revisions to Example…
Anellotech Inc. (Pearl River, N.Y.; www.anellotech.com) announced the completion of the commissioning of its 25-meter-tall TCat-8 pilot plant, and the commencement of the critical development and testing program. An integrated team of Anellotech and IFPEN research engineers and technicians will…
PolyOne Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.polyone.com) announced the acquisition of IQAP Masterbatch Group S.L., a privately owned provider of specialty colorants and additives based in Spain with customers throughout Europe. Founded in 1979 by Xavier Rovira, IQAP has built a technical…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract to complete a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant located at the existing Borealis production site in Kallo, Belgium. The contract award follows…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced that the Ibn Sina joint venture successfully started up its polyacetal manufacturing facility in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, which has a production capacity of 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). Celanese has confirmed…
Data collected and tabulated by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) shows that growth in global chemistry during November was buoyed by a synchronized up-swing in the global economy. The American Chemistry Council’s Global Chemical Production Regional Index…
Synthomer (London, U.K.; www.synthomer.com) announced that it has sold its Leuna site in Germany to Alberdingk Boley Gmbh for an undisclosed price. The site will continue to manufacture products for Synthomer for an initial period prior to transferring the manufacture…
Check out the following recent publications with relevance to professionals in the chemical process industries . . . Comprehensive Membrane Science and Engineering, 2nd ed., edited by Enrico Drioli, Lidietta Giorno and Enrica Fontananova, Elsevier Press, 2017, 1,720 pages, $1,650.00.…
This company has upgraded its Simit simulation platform for virtual commissioning and operator training (photo) with a new release. Version 9.1 enables Simit to also be used for virtual commissioning and operator training in modular plants, speeding up actual commissioning…