Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.de) has agreed to acquire Indianapolis, Indiana-based Eli Lilly and Co’s (Indianapolis, Ind.) Tippecanoe Laboratories manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Indiana. The site, which employs about 700, manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and precursor materials for the…
Cegelec (Paris, France; www.cegelec.com) has been awarded an EPC contract worth over $40 million to design and construct the blast-proof Control Building for QAPCO’s petrochemical complex being part of the new 300,000 metric ton per year (m.t./yr) low-density polyethylene (LDPE)…
The Catalysts Business Line of Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.de) and Solvias AG (Basel, Switzerland; www.solvias.com) have renewed their license agreement for vanadium-doped precious metal powder catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitro compounds. Evonik will continue to market these…
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has won orders for a Heller Indirect Dry Cooling system from Russia and for new high concentration ash slurry system from Romania. The total amount is about €40 million. The Russian order comprises the…
Foster Wheeler AG’s (FWC; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a process design contract by SETE Energy Saudia for Industrial Projects Ltd. (SETE Energy) for the expansion of an industrial wastewater treatment plant in Saudi…
IRPC Plc. (Bangkok; www.irpc.co.th), Thailand’s leading integrated petrochemical company it is allying with GE Energy General Carbon Pte. Ltd. (GCPL; www.general-carbon.com) to register a proposed cogeneration power plant at its petrochemical complex in Rayong province as a milestone Clean Development…
A new facility in Shanghai has begun production para-xylene, Honeywell's UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.) announced yesterday. Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) constructed the unit with process technology from UOP. The new aromatics complex produces 600,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has struck an agreement with Huatai Group of China to establish a hydrogen peroxide joint venture (JV). The JV company, Shandong Huatai Interox Chemical Co., will build a hydrogen peroxide plant at Huatai’s new site in…
0 0 0 Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) has received an order from Vietnam for the supply of an air compressor train. Purchaser is Air Liquide Engineering South Asia. The compressor train will be deployed in a coal-to-urea production plant,…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen; germany; www.evonik.de) has expanded its product range for high-molecular-weight plasticizer alcohols and commissioned a plant for the production of the plasticizer alcohol 2-propyl heptanol (2-PH) at the Marl Chemical Park. The company’s investment in the plant,…