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KBR to revamp ammonia plant in Mangalore

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd (MCF) for revamping its ammonia plant at Panambur, Mangalore in India. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide its ammonia technology to enhance…

POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels to build enzyme-manufacturing plant in Iowa

POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels, LLC (Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; www.poetdsm.com), a 50/50 joint venture between Royal DSM and POET, LLC, will build an onsite enzyme-manufacturing (OSM) facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa, pending state and local approvals. The facility will be integrated into…

TPC Group appoints new CFO

TPC Group Inc. (Houston; www.tpcgrp.com) announced the appointment of Bart de Jong as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) of the company. In this role, Mr. de Jong will oversee the finance, accounting and investor relations functions, in…

DSM expands solar product portfolio with Sunshine technology acquisition

Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced that it has acquired the technology and other assets of Suzhou SunShine New Materials Technology Co. — the manufacturer of a novel, high-performance solar photovoltaic (PV) backsheet based on co-extrusion technology. In 2016,…

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Current economic trends: December 2016 CEPCI

The preliminary value for the December CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) was higher than the previous month’s value by a signficant margin for the second consecutive month. The jump was due to a rise in the…

ExxonMobil to expand Singapore petroleum refinery

ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) announced the expansion of its Singapore refinery to support the production of the company’s EHC Group II base stocks, which will strengthen the global supply of these products and enhance the Singapore facility’s competitiveness. Construction…

Wison Engineering and Haldor Topsøe sign R&D collaboration agreement

Wison Engineering Service Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China: www.wison.com), one of the leading chemical engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) service providers in China, announced that its non-wholly owned affiliated company, Wison Engineering Ltd., has signed a collaboration agreement on research…

Clariant and CB&I to design new PDH unit in China

Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com), a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Dongguan Grand Resource Science & Technology Co. Ltd. to develop a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in cooperation with CB&I…

Asahi Kasei and Bluestar form JV for mPPE production in China

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) has concluded a joint venture agreement with China National Bluestar (Group) Co., a subsidiary of China National Chemical Corp. (ChemChina), for the integrated production and sale of Xyron modified polyphenylene ether (mPPE) in China,…

DuPont announces Belco-Lundberg collaboration on air-pollution control systems

Belco Technologies Corp., a DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) company, and Lundberg, LLC, a Dustex company, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the supply of air-pollution control systems on an exclusive basis around the world. The partnership applies to air-pollution…