With a view to future growth markets for paper chemicals and dyestuffs in China, Indonesia and India, BASF SE‘s (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) Paper Chemicals division (www.paper-chemicals.basf.com) will reorganize its global business structures. The business in optical brighteners for paper is…
JGC Gulf International, JGC Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) subsidiary in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the Water Treatment Facilities – Phase 3 (Onshore) project by Khafji Joint Operations (KJO), a joint venture between Aramco Gulf Operations and Kuwait Gulf Oil…
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced China’s first air separation unit (ASU) facility that uses liquefied natural gas (LNG) cold energy to produce industrial gases has been brought onstream. Located in Putian, the plant is…
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today that it will enter the high-performance polyethylene (HP-PE) market by establishing its first production facility in Emmen, the Netherlands, aiming to start commercial production in the second half of 2011. Teijin plans to grow…
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayerbms.com) is driving forward the modernization of its production sites to make them more environmentally friendly. The conversion of a large chemical plant in Dormagen means the company is now able to virtually eliminate the…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will invest in converting the mercury-based electrolysis into better performing and technologically more advanced membrane-based electrolysis in its Tavaux plant, France. This conversion will reduce the consumption of electrical energy of the electrolysis by 25%…
Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Cakif.; www.chevron.com) and Atlas Energy, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.atlasenergyresources.com) announced today that Chevron would acquire Atlas Energy for cash of $3.2 billion and assumed pro forma net debt of approximately $1.1 billion. The acquisition will provide…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has signed an agreement with Sabic Americas Inc. (Houston; www.sabic.com/americas/en) to jointly develop and commercialize toluene methylation technology. Toluene methylation is used to selectively produce para-xylene within an aromatics complex. The technology was developed around…
A database just released by the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) documents the worldwide growth of gasification, the expected technology of choice for future coal-based plants that produce power, fuels, and chemicals with near-zero emissions. The 2010…
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