CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by TOO Hill Resources (HILL) for the license and engineering design of a grassroots Lube Base Oil plant in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. The plant will use Chevron Lummus…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced an update with respect to the Ibn Sina joint venture and its construction of a 50,000 metric ton (m.t.) polyacetal manufacturing facility in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. Celanese has confirmed that the facility…
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS; Houston; www.honeywellprocess.com), with the support of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), will establish a new industrial cybersecurity center of excellence (COE) for Asia Pacific in Singapore. The COE will feature a state-of-the-art cybersecurity research and…
Veolia North America (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) announced that through a new $9-million annual operations and maintenance (O&M) contract with North Carolina Renewable Power – Lumberton, LLC, a subsidiary of Georgia Renewable Power (GRP), Veolia Energy Operating Services, LLC will manage…
Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) formally began construction of its new ethoxylation (ETO) plant in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Ushered in by a groundbreaking ceremony on June 8th at the Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park (NCIP), the new plant is expected…
Wison Engineering Services Co. (Shanghai; www.wison-engineering.com) announced that its non-wholly owned subsidiary, Wison Engineering (China) Limited, was successfully awarded a contract by Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. to deliver nine ethylene cracking furnaces for a 4-million metric tons per yr (m.t./yr) refining…
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.; www.cabot-corp.com) and joint venture partner Inner Mongolia Hengyecheng Silicone Co. (HYC) broke ground on their new fumed silica manufacturing facility in Wuhai, China. The project, announced in September 2016, is scheduled to be completed in 2019, and…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) announces its LifeSciences business continues to invest in its key capabilities through a variety of planned expansions. During this latest phase, a $60 million investment will focus on new product solutions, capacity expansion and…
Sibur’s (Moscow; www.sibur.com) Perm subsidiary and the Perm Territory government signed a special investment contract to set up a new 100,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) facility producing dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a general-purpose plasticizer. Production is scheduled to start in 2019. …
NatureWorks (Minnetonka, Minn.; www.natureworksllc.com) announced that it has signed a contract to license Plaxica's Optipure chemical processing technology for the production of D-lactic acid. The license provides NatureWorks with a low-cost route to produce D-lactic acid, a building block for…