Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) and ArcelorMittal S.A. (Luxembourg City; www.arcelormittal.com), the world's largest steel producer, have recently signed two longterm renewal contracts for the supply of oxygen, nitrogen and argon to ArcelorMittal’s production sites in the industrial port areas of…
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdgroup.com) announced the expansion of its end-to-end biodevelopment centers to meet increasing customer demand for its turnkey portfolio of bioprocessing products, manufacturing capabilities and industry leading technological expertise. The expansion, which includes the opening of two new…
Akzo Nobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has significantly strengthened its global manufacturing footprint for organic peroxides by completing a €22 million expansion of its Los Reyes production facility in Mexico. The new facility will produce Laurox brand organic peroxides,…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) is investing $90 million on its Clear Lake, Tex. site to replace existing acrylic acid production units with modern facilities using the latest available technologies. Thus Arkema will position the Clear Lake site among the most…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that PRPC Polymers Sdn Bhd (PRPC Polymers), a wholly owned subsidiary of Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG), has selected the LyondellBasell Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology. The polyethylene process technology will be…
Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com) today announced that it is providing total catalyst solutions for two major ammonia production plants in Indonesia, in cooperation with its licensing partner KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com). The new projects rely on KBR’s process technologies combined with…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a front-end engineering, design and optimization (FEED) contract by Danakali Ltd. in Eritrea, East Africa for the Colluli Potash Project following a competitive tendering process initiated and completed in 2016. Fluor will book…
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com), has been awarded a contract to supply and install a replacement boiler for ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s Hamilton, Ontario, steel manufacturing plant. B&W…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA; Houston), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com), has successfully completed construction of the world's largest post-combustion CO2 capture and compression system. Managed and executed in the U.S., the system…
Praxair Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced the startup of its fourth air separation unit (ASU), a 1,400-ton/d unit, and upgrade of the pipeline system serving the Samsung Electronics Co. (Samsung) Hwasung site in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The new plant…