Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex; Mexico City; www.pemex.com) announced that Air Liquide México S.A. de R.L. de C.V. will supply hydrogen to the Miguel Hidalgo refinery in Tula, for the next 20 years. According to the strategy described in its Business Plan,…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) recently doubled the capacity of their Kepstan PEKK (Poly-Ether-Ketone-Ketone) product line in France, and confirms its future investment at its Mobile, Alabama site in a world-scale PEKK plant expected to come onstream in the second half…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo; www.toray.com) announced that it has decided to construct a new large-scale facility to manufacture carbon paper for electrode substrates of fuel-cell stacks at its Ehime Plant (Masaki-cho, Iyo-gun, Ehime, Japan). Toray is currently working on application…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced today it has been awarded a technology licensing and basic engineering design (LBED) revamp contract by LG Chem for its ethylene plant at Daesan, South Korea.Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide license…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its existing production plants for polymeric binders in Germany. The Munich-based chemical group is currently building another dispersion reactor with an annual capacity of 60,000 metric tons at its Burghausen site. Some…
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) today announced that Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company, Ltd. started its UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) Advanced Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) unit during a 10-day test to confirm successful operation. When the full unit goes on line, it will have an…
Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) has agreed to sell its North American spray polyurethane foam system business to Accella Polyurethane Systems LLC (www.accellacorp.com). Accella is a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners. The sale is scheduled to be completed in the…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that Houston-based Enterprise Products Operating LLC has chosen Honeywell UOP’s C4 Oleflex technology to produce 425,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of isobutylene, which is used to make high-octane fuel and high-performance synthetic rubbers…
D3MAX LLC (Grand Forks, N. Dak.; www.D3MAXLLC.com) has announced the completion and shipment of its pilot plant employing the patented D3MAX cellulosic ethanol technology. The pilot facility will be installed at ACE Ethanol, LLC, in Stanley, Wisconsin, in late February.…
The industrial and technology group thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp.com) has reached agreement with Ternium on the sale of the CSA Siderúrgica do Atlântico (CSA) steel plant in Brazil. The purchase price (enterprise value) is €1.5 billion. “With the sale…