To help meet new regulations governing wastewater treatment at Chinese coal-to-chemical plants, a facility in Yulin City will install GE’s (Trevose, Pa.; www.ge.com) advanced zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology. GE’s ZLD evaporator and crystallizer system will eliminate liquid discharge of…
The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), expanded 0.6 percent in April, following a revised 0.1 percent increase in March and 0.2 percent decline in February. All data are…
SBS INTL Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.sbsintl.com) and Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of commercial-scale tidal current projects in Indonesia. The MoU was facilitated by the recent BKPM trade…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has received a contract from HeidelbergCement AG to supply a new cement clinker production line. The 4,500-ton/d facility will be built at the Schelklingen plant in Baden-Württemberg as a replacement for an existing…
The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) edged higher by 0.3% in March, following a 0.1% gain in February, and a 0.4% gain in January, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council…
Solvay Engineering Plastics (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com), a world leader in polyamide-based performance materials, announces the creation of a dedicated part testing laboratory in Shanghai, China, to support the growth of its customers in the Asia region. Starting end of this…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement to sell its global Polyolefin Catalysts business to W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com). Currently, the Polyolefin Catalysts business is part of BASF’s Catalysts division. BASF and Grace intend to…
The world’s largest IndMax fluid-catalytic-cracking (FCC) unit, jointly licensed by CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) and Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL), was successfully commissioned at IndianOil’s Paradip Refinery, Odisha, India, in early December 2015. The start-up is a major landmark…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Daelim Industrial Company* to provide proprietary equipment for the world’s first commercial High Severity Fluid Catalytic Cracking (HS-FCC) unit. The HS-FCC cracks heavy hydrocarbons into lighter olefins such as propylene and…
Handbook of Seal Integrity in the Food Industry. By Michael Dudbridge, Wiley & Sons, April 2016, 232 pages, $120.00. Curious Tales from Chemistry: The Last Alchemist in Paris and Other Episodes. By Lars Ohrstrom, Oxford University Press, January 2016,…