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Outotec provides technology for Tata Steel for beneficiation of chromite tailings
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Tata Steel, a major global steel company, on the delivery of technology for beneficiation of chromite tailings in Sukinda, Orissa, India. The order will be booked in Outotec's 2014 first quarter order…
Oxea to increase capacity for specialty esters at Amsterdam site
Oxea S.à r.l. (Luxembourg; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has announced that it has successfully increased its capacity for specialty esters by 20 percent at its Amsterdam Esters Plant (AEP). The company’s investment for this expansion was in the single-digit-million Euro range. The expansion…
Global Bioenergies partners with Audi on drop-in biofuel
Global Bioenergies (Evry, France; www.global-bioenergies.com) announces the signature of a collaboration with Audi (Ingolstadt, Germany) on the development of isobutene-derived isooctane, a high performance biofuel for gasoline engines. Global Bioenergies is a pioneer in the development of processes for the direct…
Bronkhorst strengthens its position in Asia
Recognizing Asia as a major growth market, Bronkhorst High-Tech BV (Ruurlo, the Netherlands; www.bronkhorst.com) has already opened several branch offices for sales and service in Japan, Taiwan and China in recent years. In late 2013, Bronkhorst acquired its distributor in…
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions receives contract for DME plant in Russia
Plant engineering and construction specialist ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has been awarded a contract for the extended basic engineering package and license for a dimethyl ether (DME) production facility in Shchekino, Tula region, located about 200 km south…
Ineos to license polypropylene technology to new plant in Vietnam
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has announced that it has licensed its Innovene polypropylene (PP) process for the manufacture of homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers to Vung Ro Petroleum Limited at its refinery complex located in Hoa Tam Commune,…
Tecnimont awarded engineering contracts for two Russian fertilizer plants
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) has announced that its main operating company Tecnimont S.p.A. has signed contracts for engineering for two fertilizer plants in Russia, as well as an agreement for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) direct negotiation for…
BASF opens polyarylsulfone plant in South Korea
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has announced that it has opened a new plant in Yeosu, Korea to strengthen the supply of Ultrason polyarylsulfone, one of the company’s high-performance thermoplastics. The new plant has a production capacity of 6,000 metric…
NUS and BASF embark on joint graphene research
The Graphene Research Center (GRC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS; http://graphene.nus.edu.sg) Faculty of Science and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have partnered to develop the use of graphene in organic electronic devices, such as organic light emitting diodes…
Braskem and Siluria to collaborate on ethylene technology
Siluria Technologies (San Francisco, Calif.; www.siluria.com), a commercial producer of fuels and chemicals made from natural gas, and Braskem S.A. (Sao Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) have formed a broad-ranging collaboration around the deployment of Siluria's proprietary oxidative coupling of methane, or…