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Overall U.S. chemical production fell in August, but wholesale sales rose, ACC says
Production by the U.S. chemical industry fell by 0.3% in August, according to data contained in the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The drop left production at 85.7% of…
New office for CertifiedSafety begins construction
CertifiedSafety (Deer Park, Tex.; www.certifiedsafety.net) commenced the construction for its new corporate office in League City, Texas. The new facility, expected to open its doors in December 2012, is located at 1177 Butler Avenue in League City, Texas, near Highway…
Bechtel’s ThruPlus Coking technology to be used in refinery in Mexico
Bechtel (Houston; www.bechtel.com) has signed a license agreement with Pemex Refinación for the process design of a delayed coking unit (DCU) complex for the new Tula petroleum refinery project in Hidalgo, Mexico. The DCU complex will use Bechtel’s ThruPlus Coking technology, a…
Fluor selected for Dow’s propylene production project in Texas
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) say it was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) for a propylene production asset project in Freeport, Texas. Fluor successfully completed the front-end engineering…
Startup of the world’s first integrated CCS of coal-fired power plant
A carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide recovered from emissions from a…
Samsung Engineering signs contract for urea plant in Bolivia
Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) signed its first Latin American contract at an official ceremony with Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Bolivia’s state-owned oil company. Joining the historic event was Bolivian President Evo Morales, YPFB President Carlos Villegas, and…
Report on cost and practicality of two new OECD toxicity tests is available
Normal 0 A survey on the current costs and practicalities of following two new OECD guidelines for testing chemicals has been published on the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) website. The “Report on Survey of Worldwide Contract Research Organizations: Costs and…
UOP selected to provide technology for petrochemical production in China
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that its technology has been selected to help produce key ingredients for fuels, synthetic rubber and plastics in China. China’s Heilongjiang Anruijia Petrochemical Co. will use UOP’s C4 Oleflex…
U.S. chemical industry grows as global manufacturing continues contraction, ACC says
The U.S. chemical industry was one of eight industries reporting growth during August, while a host of others, including textiles, fabricated metals and machinery reported contraction, according to data from the Institute for Supply Management that was analyzed in the…
LS9 fatty alcohol demonstration facility starts up in Florida
LS9, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.ls9.com) a technology leader in the development of renewable and sustainable chemicals and fuels, today announced the successful start-up of its Florida operations with an initial production run of fatty alcohols. LS9 completed the…