The joint venture between Evonik Industrial AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and the Chinese company Wynca — Evonik Wynca (Zhenjiang) Silicon Material Co., Ltd. — has officially started the construction on a new fumed silica plant in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China.…
Over the past three years, Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has invested 37.4 million euros in the expansion of its Hungarian operations. The company recently signed a contract for the construction of a new onsite gas facility with…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced that it has been awarded a sizeable technology contract for Next Wave Energy Partners, LP's grassroots alkylate production facility, known as Project Traveler, in Pasadena, Texas. McDermott's Lummus Technology is providing the PDP and…
Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has secured a contract with Serba Dinamik International for the engineering and procurement of a new modular chlor-alkali plant. The greenfield plant with a capacity of 90 tons of chlorine per day will…
Toray Industries Inc.’s (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) Romembra reverse osmosis (RO) and Torayfil ultrafiltration (UF) membrane technologies (www.toraywater.com) have been selected for a new seawater desalination facility in Brazil, which is set to become the largest in the country. ArcelorMittal (www.arcelormitall.com),…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Desalitech Ltd. (Boston, Mass.; www.desalitech.com), a closed-circuit reverse osmosis (CCRO) company. The transaction is expected to close in January 2020, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and Arzeda (Seattle, Wash.; www.azeda.com) are pleased to announce they have entered a second extended collaboration agreement for developing a bio-process for production of a renewable chemical of high strategic and industrial interest to BP.After successful…
Baltic Chemical Plant LLC (BCP), a wholly owned subsidiary of RusGasDobycha, has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston; www.univation.com) UNIPOL PE Process for six reactor lines to be located at the Ust-Luga marine port located in Leningradsky Region, Russia. Each UNIPOL PE…
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) signed a Framework Agreement with Reliance Industries Ltd.(RIL; Mumbai, India; www.ril.com) to explore development of an Ethylene Dichloride (EDC) facility in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.Under the terms of the agreement, ADNOC and RIL…
Sludge is a byproduct of processes carried out in industry and agriculture. It is very wet, so disposing of it is difficult. A pilot project at Stora Enso Oyj’s (Helsinki, Finland; www.storaenso.com) Heinola Mill in Finland addresses this challenge using…