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Lubrizol names new CFO

The Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) announced the promotion of J. Brian Pitts to corporate vice president, chief financial officer (CFO) and treasurer.  Brian Pitts succeeds Brian Valentine who has announced his decision to leave the organization later this year. …

Wison Engineering wins $360-million modularization project in Texas

Wison Engineering Services Co. (Shanghai; www.wison-engineering.com) announced that Wison Petrochemicals (NA) LLC was recently awarded a construction contract for the modularization of the design and supply processes, bulk material procurement and on-site construction and installation for a petrochemical project in…

DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products to increase production capacity for bio-based propanediol

DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC (www.duponttateandlyle.com), a joint venture between DuPont and Tate & Lyle, announced an expansion to their manufacturing facility in Loudon, Tennessee, to increase annual production of bio-based 1,3-propanediol by 35 million pounds. Engineering and…

Hexion completes expansion of proppants plant in Alberta

Hexion Inc.’s (Columbus, Ohio; www.hexion.com) Oilfield Technology Group announced the completion of the expansion project at its resin-coated proppant manufacturing plant in Canada. The proppant plant is located in Sturgeon County, north of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. With this project,…

H Sulphur licenses Shell Thiogro Technology

Shell Thiogro Technology (www.shell.com/sulphur/thiogro) will enable H Sulphur Corp. (Ulsan, South Korea; www.hsulphur.com) to produce a highly concentrated sulfur-enhanced fertilizer for use on a variety of crops across the globe.  The product uses Shell Thiogro’s Urea-ES technology, a patented process…

MHIEC Receives Order to Build Waste to Energy Plant in Kawasaki

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com) has received an order from Kawasaki City (Kanagawa Prefecture) to build its Tachibana Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant, a municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plant in Kawasaki's…

Air Liquide and 10 Japanese companies join forces to accelerate the deployment of H2 energy in Japan

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) and 10 large Japanese companies, representing several industries and finance, announce the creation of the “Japan H2 Mobility” consortium for the purpose of accelerating the deployment in Japan of hydrogen stations and fuel cell electric…

Congratulations to the Connected Plant Game Changers

The Connected Plant Game Changer Award recognizes those people who are leading the charge in implementing digital technologies in their field: either in the chemical process industries or in power generation. Nominations are open to individuals who have used tools…

World’s largest single-train methanol-to-olefins plant now operating

Honeywell today announced that Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company, Ltd. has accepted a new methanol-to-olefins (MTO) unit provided by Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), and that the plant is operating and has met all guarantees. With a production capacity of…

Mitsubishi Chemical and Linde Engineering enter technology transfer for hydrodealklyation

The Engineering Division of The Linde Group (www.linde-engineering.com) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.co.jp) have concluded a definite agreement for transfer of MCC’s Hydrodealkylation (HDA) technology to Linde. For more than 45 years, MCC’s HDA process has been deployed…