Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has begun supplying BP’s petroleum-refinery complex in Whiting, Indiana, with hydrogen from its new, state-of-the-art hydrogen facility. The two steam-methane reformers have a total capacity of 200 million standard cubic feet per day. BP uses…
After four years of construction, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich; www.dowcorning.com) today officially inaugurated their joint integrated silicone-manufacturing site in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, China. The facility will serve fast-growing demand for silicone materials…
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to further expand its gas supply infrastructure for GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, China’s largest producer of highly purified polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon). Building on the existing contract with GCL, this deal…
In Elyria, Ohio, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has commenced construction of a more than $50-million production facility for innovative cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries used to power hybrid and full-electric vehicles. The facility is being built with the help…
The Global Power Group of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has been awarded a contract to design and supply a solar steam generator system (preheaters, drum-type evaporators, and superheaters) including interconnecting piping, valves, primary I&C, steel structures, and site…
The trade balance in the chemicals industry improved to a surplus of $3.4 billion, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau that was included in the most recent American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Weekly Chemistry and Economic…
The signing of a deal in Essen on November 11, 2010, sees SKC (Seoul, Korea) acquiring a 45% share in Evonik Degussa Peroxide Korea Co. (Ulsan), a subsidiary of Evonik Degussa GmbH (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com). Evonik Degussa Peroxide Korea is…
At the end of 2011, the Russian company Korund Cyan will commission, in the Nizhny Novgorod province of the Russian Federation, one of the most advanced facilities in the world for manufacturing sodium cyanide. The plant will rely on CyPlus…
UOP LLC (Des Planes, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has selected UOP to provide all of the process technologies for two new maximum diesel refineries to be built in Brazil. UOP hydrocracking and…
With a view to future growth markets for paper chemicals and dyestuffs in China, Indonesia and India, BASF SE‘s (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) Paper Chemicals division (www.paper-chemicals.basf.com) will reorganize its global business structures. The business in optical brighteners for paper is…