Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wis.; www.virent.com) announced the appointment of Stacey Orlandi as the company’s chief executive officer. Orlandi will lead efforts to commercialize Virent’s technology for the large scale production of renewable fuels and chemicals and replace Lee Edwards, who…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has just successfully brought onstream new Kynar polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) capacities on its Changshu platform near Shanghai. With this 25% increase in its production capacities in China, Arkema, which runs PVDF production plants on 3 continents…
On 17 April 2017, Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) and Hoa Phat Steel, the largest steel producer in Vietnam, signed a contract in Hanoi for the construction of two plants for the production of industrial gases. The contract is to…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced that INOX Air Products Ltd. (Mumbai), its joint venture (JV) in India, will build six new air separation units (ASUs) which will serve the growing onsite and merchant liquid industrial gases market…
Keppel Infrastructure Holdings Pte Ltd. (Singapore; www.kepinfra.com) has signed an agreement with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to develop, own and operate a state-of-the-art gasification facility on Jurong Island, Singapore. The agreement marks the culmination of a competitive selection…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded a contract by Biosynthetic Technologies (BT; Irvine, Calif.) to perform FEED design and engineering services for a new synthetic base-oil facility that will commercialize BT’s unique technology converting natural oils into…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today announced the mechanical completion of a significant investment at its adsorbents production site in Nienburg, Germany. Two new state-of-the-art dryers at the site support BASF’s long-term commitment to its customers and underline BASF’s corporate…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) for the license and engineering design of a single-train 220,000-ton/yr diphenyl carbonate (DPC) unit, based on Versalis technology, for a petroleum-refining and…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Codelco to provide engineering, procurement and field support services for the overhaul of acid plants at the Chuquicamata Mine in northern Chile. Chuquicamata, an open pit copper mine,…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) outlined a new strategy to accelerate growth and value creation with two focused, high-performing businesses – Paints and Coatings and Specialty Chemicals – which will lead to a step change in value creation for…