Turkey is currently undergoing very dynamic development; the Turkish economy saw growth of more than 10% in the first half of 2010. High technology and energy sectors have seen accelerated growth for a number of years. In this context, Air…
Joint Venture Panama (JVP), a joint venture led (70%) by SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com), along with partners GyM S.A. (a member of Graña y Montero Group) (15%) and Techint International Construction Corp. (15%), is pleased to announce that it has…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) plans to construct manufacturing facilities in China and the U.S. to utilize recently-developed advanced technology for the production of ethanol for chemical applications and other industrial uses. Celanese’s innovative process technology builds on the company’s…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has agreed to acquire two businesses from Flexsys, a division of Solutia Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) to strengthen the portfolio of its Rubber Chemicals business unit. Lanxess will acquire the primary accelerator business as well…
BASF Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has entered into an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Chemiewerk Bad Köstritz (Thüringen, Germany; www.cwk-bk.de) to market molecular sieve products targeted at the natural gas, petroleum refining, petrochemical and air-drying markets. BASF commented…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and the Chinese energy group China Power Investment Corp. (CPI) announced their intention to build a coal-based petrochemical plant in China. The two companies signed a letter of understanding (LOU) today in Paris during the…
IDEX Corp. (Lake Forest, Ill.; www.idexcorp.com) has acquired The Fitzpatrick Co., a designer and manufacturer of customized size-reduction, roll compaction and drying systems to support product development and manufacturing processes. Fitzpatrick will expand the capability of IDEX's Quadro Engineering by…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Jordan Phosphate Mines Co. (JPMC) to upgrade and increase the capacity of two sulfuric acid plants in Aqaba, Jordan. SNC-Lavalin’s revenues from the project…
Univation Technologies LLC (Houston; www.univation) announced that Yulin Energy and Chemical Ltd. of Yanchang Petroleum Group Co. (Yulin) has selected Univation’s Unipol PE Process for a 300,000 metric ton per year polyethylene (PE) plant. The facility will be located in…
Invista (Wichita, Kans; www.invista.com) has signed a technology licensing agreement with Markor Chemical Co. (www.markor.com.cn) for 1,4 butanediol (BDO) manufacturing technology. The licensing agreement covers the manufacturing processes, required technologies, product formulations and expert engineering services for the 100,000-ton/yr BDO…