BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has decided to establish a wholly-owned world-scale production base for water treatment and paper chemicals in Nanjing, China, with the construction of a 40,000-ton/yr quaternized-cationic monomers plant and a 20,000-ton/yr cationic-polyacrylamides plant. The two BASF…
SOCAR & Turcas Refining has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) hydrotreating technologies for its Aegean Refinery Project at Aliaga province of the Aegean port city of Izmir. The three units under Axens design and fed by the effluents from an…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract with the Henan Jinkai Group, China. The contract includes a sulfur management plant, which will play a key role in clean coal gasification. The plant will be built in connection…
ABB (Baden, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has commissioned automation and power equipment that increases production at Boliden AB’s (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.se) Aitik copper concentrator plant, located near Gällivare in northern Sweden. Aitik is Sweden’s largest mine and has now become a global…
ABB (www.abb.com) will collaborate with Dresser Masoneilan (both Houston; www.dressermasoneilan.com) on an integrated process to monitor, test and manage emergency shutdown valves (ESDV) during all operational conditions, from normal plant operations to abnormal situations. These valves are crucial process elements…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Company Ltd. (BWBC) has signed a contract to build two 1,000-MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired boilers for a large power plant project in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province,…
LyondellBasell’s (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) Spheripol process technology has been selected by Pucheng Clean Energy Chemical Co. for a new 400,000-ton/yr polypropylene (PP) plant to be built in Pucheng County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, in the Peoples Republic of China.…
Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich.; www.dowcorning.com) will invest in a 32,000-m2, energy-efficient distribution center in Feluy, Belgium, to expand delivery capabilities and optimize service for customers throughout Europe and the Middle East. The project will represent a total investment of…
U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) Secretary Steven Chu announced today the investment of up to $16.5 million for two major research and development (R&D) initiatives that will support the expansion of renewable transportation fuels production. The first…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced today that a plant using the combined DMTO methanol-to-olefins technology of SYN Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Dalian, China; www.syn.ac.cn) and Lummus Technology successfully started-up in Baotou, China. It is the world's first methanol-to-olefins unit…