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Wison Engineering and Haldor Topsøe sign R&D collaboration agreement

Wison Engineering Service Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China: www.wison.com), one of the leading chemical engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) service providers in China, announced that its non-wholly owned affiliated company, Wison Engineering Ltd., has signed a collaboration agreement on research…

Clariant and CB&I to design new PDH unit in China

Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com), a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Dongguan Grand Resource Science & Technology Co. Ltd. to develop a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in cooperation with CB&I…

Asahi Kasei and Bluestar form JV for mPPE production in China

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) has concluded a joint venture agreement with China National Bluestar (Group) Co., a subsidiary of China National Chemical Corp. (ChemChina), for the integrated production and sale of Xyron modified polyphenylene ether (mPPE) in China,…

DuPont announces Belco-Lundberg collaboration on air-pollution control systems

Belco Technologies Corp., a DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) company, and Lundberg, LLC, a Dustex company, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the supply of air-pollution control systems on an exclusive basis around the world. The partnership applies to air-pollution…

Honeywell to provide process controls, automation and various technology licenses for Zhejiang Petrochemical Co.

Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will use a range of process technology from Honeywell UOP, the world’s leading licensor of refining and petrochemical process technology, for a new integrated refining and petrochemical complex…

Evonik to construct new production plant for PMMA films

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has approved construction on a new production plant for high-quality flat films made from multi-layer polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). To finance the project, the company plans to invest a sum in the double-digit millions in…

ABB aquires Barcelona-based 3-D sensor company NUB3D

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) announced that it has acquired the Spanish startup company NUB3D, a leading innovator of digital, 3-D inspection and quality-control solutions. The acquisition expands the group’s portfolio of ABB Ability solutions that connect customers to the industrial…

Amec Foster Wheeler awarded FEED contract for uranium processing plant in Spain

Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Berkeley Energia for its uranium processing plant at its Salamanca Project, in western Spain. The scope of work by Amec Foster Wheeler will…

AkzoNobel announces startup of bio-steam facility at Delfzijl plant

Akzo Nobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has announced the startup of a bio-steam facility at its Delfzijl site in the Netherlands. Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Henk Kamp, utility company Eneco and Groningen Seaports opened a facility that will…

Veolia to build iron-removal water-treatment plant in Senegal

Veolia (Pairs, France; www.veolia.com), through subsidiaries OTV and SADE, has been awarded the contract to design and build an iron-removal water-treatment plant for Senegal’s water utility, Société Nationale des Eaux du Sénégal (SONES). The project is part of SONES’s extensive…