Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.; www.gevo.com) and Renmatix, Inc. (King of Prussia, Pa.; www.renmatix.com) announced a joint development agreement to evaluate the commercial feasibility of creating renewable jet fuel by integrating Renmatix’s Plantrose Process with Gevo’s GIFT technology and alcohol-to-jet process.…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) today released its 2018 Year-End Situation and Outlook. Highlights of the Outlook include the following: Against the backdrop of “decoupling” global growth, ending a rare period of synchronized expansion around the world,…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterhur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com), TechnipFMC (Houston; www.technipfmc.com) and Futerro (www.futerro.com) have formed the PLAnet initiative in equal partnership to promote the production of sustainable plastics made of Poly-Lactic Acid (PLA). The strategic collaboration will support manufacturers interested in entering…
Meridian Energy Group, Inc. (Belfield, N.D.; www.meridianenergygroupinc.com) has signed an agreement with McDermott International Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com), under which McDermott will finalize the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the Meridian Davis Refinery in Billings County, North Dakota. Following the completion of…
INVISTA (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) announced that installation of a new reactor at its polyols manufacturing facility in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, is complete. The reactor is producing material within specifications, and customer deliveries have started. “We are pleased that our ability…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has closed the acquisition of the U.K.-based combustion solutions and technology provider Kiln Flame Systems Ltd. (KFS), to extend its pyro processing portfolio and capabilities. KFS specializes in rotary kiln and calcining processes, combustion optimization…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Terrafame Ltd, a Finnish multi-metal company, have agreed on the delivery of pressure-leaching and solvent-extraction technologies for a battery chemicals plant to be built in Sotkamo, Finland. The total order value booked in the fourth…
LLC Novatek – Ust-Luga has chosen the Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) Convection Reformer (HTCR) for hydrogen production at its petroleum refinery in Ust-Luga, Russia. The modular HTCR technology lived up to Novatek’s strict requirements for minimal water consumption,…
Honeywell says that the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology to supply high-quality hydrogen as part of the modernization of the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery (HAOR)…
Eurochem Group AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.eurochemgroup.com) and Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group (www.mairetecnimont.com), announce the formal opening of Russia’s first urea ammonium sulphate (UAS) plant at EuroChem’s Novomoskovskiy Azot plant,…