CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced it has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $1.3 billion by Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for an ethane cracker project located in Port Arthur,…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded a contract by the Manaseer Group. Under the contract WorleyParsons will provide project management consulting (PMC) services for a greenfield integrated potash and phosphate fertilizer complex in Jordan. WorleyParsons will supervise…
New orders booked in Germany by members of the VDMA Large Industrial Plant Manufacturers ́ Group (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.grossanlagenbau.vdma.org) in 2016 totaled €18.9 billion, which was 3% down on the previous year and the lowest level since 2004.…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) is entering a partnership with Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and Nova Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alta.; www.novachem.com) to form a joint venture (JV) with the aim of building an ethane steam cracker and a new…
GFBiochemicals Ltd. (Milan, Italy; www.gfbiochemicals.com) and American Process Inc. (API), leaders in the global bio-product industry, are pleased to announce that they have entered into a joint development agreement to create the largest integrated cellulosic bio-refinery in the world. The…
Rennovia Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.; www.rennovia.com) has now successfully commissioned, and is operating, all core pilot plant operations for its sugars to 1,6-hexanediol (1,6-HDO) process. 1,6-HDO is a specialty chemical widely used today in a variety of formulated products, including…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) announces that in conjunction with its previously announced technology license agreement with Daelim Industrial, it has begun construction of a new polyisobutylene (PIB) unit at its Deer Park, Tex. facility. Construction of this unit…
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has named Rahmyn Kress as chief digital officer to accelerate Henkel’s digital activities. He will report directly to Henkel CEO Hans Van Bylen. Rahmyn Kress will join Henkel in the second quarter…
With the goal of spurring innovation to address customers’ engineering design challenges and accelerating speed to market for new, rigorously-tested products, Emerson (St. Luois, Mo.; www.emerson.com) opened an advanced additive manufacturing center at its Singapore campus. This is Emerson’s second…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) opened its expanded production facility for dicamba in Beaumont, Texas. Dicamba is the active ingredient in BASF’s newest herbicide product Engenia, which was granted approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in December 2016.…