SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco), one of the largest copper producers in the world, for the construction of two sulfuric acid plants…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), featured another solid gain of 0.3 percent in November, following a gain of 0.3 percent in October and a 0.4 percent…
The BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany; www.vw.com) international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University, California. The jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected him for his…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay), ArcelorMittal S.A. (Luxembourg; www.arcelormittal.com), Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and LafargeHolcim (Jona, Switzerland; www.lafargeholcim.com) today announce the formation of a new Low Carbon Technology Partnerships Initiative (LCPRi) across the steel, cement and chemicals industries.…
Zhejiang Feida MHPS High Efficiency Flue Gas Cleaning System Engineering Co., Ltd. (FMH), the environmental equipment engineering joint-venture (JV) established in China by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS; Yokohama, Japan; www.mhps.com), has completed retrofit project and begun operations for…
Evonik Resource Efficiency GmbH (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) will invest in a capacity expansion of its Performance Foams business at its production site in Darmstadt, Germany. The investment will increase the output of the facility by about 20% as a first…
Ion exchange resins and membrane elements from Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) are being used in the new water treatment plant of Egypt’s leading fertilizer manufacturer, Alexandria Fertilizers Co. (Alexfert) in Alexandria. The brackish water is pre-treated using reverse osmosis…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is expanding its production facilities in Birmingham (Alabama, USA) and Darmstadt (Germany). This will create additional capacity for the production of biodegradable polymers marketed globally under the brand names Resomer and Resomer Select. These…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract by Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco), one of the largest copper producers in the world, for the replacement of its effluent-treatment plant at the…
Tesoro Corp. (San Antonio, Tex; www.tsocorp.com) and Western Refining, Inc. (El Paso, Tex.; www.wnr.com) jointly announced a definitive agreement under which Tesoro will acquire Western at an implied current price of $37.30 per Western share in a stock transaction, representing…