Dow (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) recently held a signing ceremony for its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaboration with the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone in Jiangsu province, China. By facilitating expansion at Dow’s signature manufacturing site in Zhangjiagang with potential investments…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) is expanding its partnership with Sumitomo Chemical Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) to include a new plant that Sumitomo is building at its site in Oita, Japan. The new plant will supply a key raw material…
John Sinks has been appointed as CEO of Magnum Systems (Lanexa, Kan.; www.magnumsystems.com), a North American equipment manufacture of bulk solids pneumatic conveying and packaging automation systems. John has been in the industrial business sector for his entire career, with…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie held a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of three new nitrogen plants near Zuidbroek, Groningen. The groundbreaking on March 9 occurred after receiving project approval from The Netherland’s Economic Affairs…
The right mix of data collection, analysis, visualization and alerts can make the very daunting task of maintaining hundreds of pieces of equipment a simpler and more effective process Chemical manufacturing is a labor- and capital-intensive process that is both…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo; www.yokogawa.com) announced that it completed the acquisition of all shares in Denmark-based Grazper Technologies ApS (Grazper), as mutually agreed. Grazper has developed advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for analyzing images, and Yokogawa aims to leverage these…
The Power-to-Fuel project, led by Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden; www.liquidwind.se), will establish commercial-scale renewable fuel facilities. The Consortium (consisting of Axpo, COWI, Carbon Clean Solutions, Haldor Topsoe, Nel Hydrogen and Siemens) will combine their expertise and technology to produce liquid,…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced that Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), McDermott's joint venture with Chevron, has been awarded a sizeable contract by a Southeast Asian refiner for the license, engineering and supply of proprietary catalyst and equipment for its…
Many industry events are being impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This list will be updated continually as more information is available. To add an event to this list, please email mbailey@chemengonline.com. AIChE Spring Meeting & Global congress on Process…
According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) edged lower by 0.2 percent in February following a 0.1 percent gain in January and a 0.2 percent decline in December. During…