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Covestro to expand production of polycarbonate films in Dormagen
At its Dormagen site, Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com ) has started building additional production lines for high-quality polycarbonate films. The new coextrusion lines are scheduled for completion by the end of 2020 and will cover the increasing demand. According to…
KBR wins Sadara maintenance contract
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a Maintenance Alliance Program (MAP) contract to provide long-term maintenance services for the Sadara Chemical Company, a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical Company. The Sadara project is the largest chemical…
Adnoc Refining awards FEED contract to McDermott
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced it has been awarded a sizeable contract by ADNOC Refining to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the Refinery Offgases (ROG) project at the Ruwais Refinery in Abu Dhabi. The scope of work…
Linde starts up air separation unit at Samsung facility
Linde (www.linde.com) announced that it has started up a new air separation unit to supply 700 tons per day of gaseous nitrogen to support Samsung in Tangjeong, South Korea. This is the company's fourth air separation plant at the facility.…
Ma’aden selects Outotec for gold-processing plant
In a major international competitive bidding process, the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden) has awarded the consortium of Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Larsen & Toubro with an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build a greenfield mineral concentrator…
New joint venture to tackle polystyrene recycling
AmSty (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.amsty.com), a joint venture equally owned by Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP and Trinseo LLC, and Agilyx (Tigard, Oregon; www.agilyx.com) have formed a joint venture, Regenyx LLC, dedicated to fully recycling post-consumer polystyrene materials back to…
Recently Published Books for the CPI: May 2019
The following titles are selected recently published books relevant for professionals in the chemical process industries (CPI) . . . Chemical Engineering in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Drug Product Design, Development, and Modeling 2nd ed. Edited by Mary Am Ende, and David…
Chementator Briefs
Depolymerization Last month, DuPont Teijin Films Ltd. (DTF; Contern, Luxembourg; www.dupontteijinfilms.com) launched its new LuxCR depolymerization process, which upcycles post-consumer waste into a variety of biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) films. The LuxCR process depolymerizes mechanically recovered PET flake back…
Taking a stand on sustainability
Last month, Royal Dutch Shell (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) released a report1 that assesses the company’s alignment with 19 industry associations on climate-related policy. In the report, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden states “The need for urgent action in…
Impinging jet mixers are applied to bio-crude harvesting from algae
Microalgae have been investigated as a source of “bio-crude” — fatty acid molecules (lipids) that can be refined into renewable transportation fuels — but harvesting lipids from the algae cells economically remains the most challenging and energy-intensive step in the…