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Kemira inaugurates its largest water-treatment chemicals plant
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki; www.kemira.com) has announced the inauguration of its biggest water treatment chemicals manufacturing plant. Together with companies involved in the construction, business partners and customers from Germany, France and Benelux, the celebration offers a unique behind-the-scenes glimpse of…
Evonik boosts capacity for special silicas at its Rheinfelden site
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has officially opened a new production line to manufacture surface-treated fumed silica under the Aerosil brand name. The new line will be located at Evonik’s Rheinfelden, Germany site, which will boost their global production…
Linde to construct air-separation unit in east Germany
The Linde Group (Pullach, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to build a new air-separation unit in the eastern German town of Eisenhüttenstadt, near Frankfurt an der Oder. Around EUR 85 million will be channelled into the plant, which will supply the…
M+W Group receives contract for Merck’s new pharmaceutical facility in China
M+W Group (Stuttgart, Germany; www.mwgroup.net), one of the world’s leading high-tech engineering and construction companies, has been awarded a major order from Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merckgroup.com) for its new pharmaceutical facility in China. The site, with around 40,000 m2,…
BASF inaugurates chemical complex in India
BASF India Ltd. today inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India. With a project cost of INR 1,000 crore (approximately €150 million), the site represents BASF’s single largest investment in India. The site was jointly inaugurated…
New Borealis JV delivers safe and reliable energy supplies in Porvoo
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) plans to partner with Neste Oil and Veolia in a joint venture (JV) to modernize and operate the power plant in the Kilpilahti petrochemical cluster in Porvoo, Finland. Designed to meet demanding European emissions requirements,…
Neste Jacobs awarded EPCM contract for biopropane production plant
Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) has been chosen as the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contractor to design and implement the new biopropane production process at Neste Oil's Rotterdam refinery. Neste Oil and Neste Jacobs have together developed…
Clariant opens engineering center in Louisville
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has opened an Engineering Project Center for its North America operations, in Louisville, Ky. The new facility provides project management and engineeering services for current and future capital projects, said Kenneth Golder, Clairant’s head of the…
Chemical industry expansion continues, but equities slip slightly, ACC says
Shale-gas-driven investment in the U.S. by chemical companies continues to expand, according to records maintained by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The current list of chemistry industry projects totals 208, up from 188 in July. The cumulative…
Reverdia now licensing its bio-succinic acid process technology
In addition to its production capacity of about 10,000 metric tons/year (m.t./yr) out of the Cassano, Italy Biosuccinium plant, Reverdia (Geleen, the Netherlands; www.reverdia.com) has announced at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology (EFIB) that it is now licensing Biosuccinium. …