Yesterday, Dow (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced the winners of the 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards, which recognize the packaging industry’s top achievements in innovative packaging design, materials, technologies and processes. The highest honor, the Diamond Award, went to Dai Nippon Printing…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com), a global technology and engineering company, has helped design, equip and provide training tools for San Jacinto College’s new Center for Petrochemical, Energy and Technology (CPET), designed to empower students of all levels with…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for July 2019 decreased from the previous month’s value. The decline is the fifth within the last six months. Decreases in the Equipment and Buildings subindices…
Sulzer GTC Technology (Houston; www.sulzer.com) has signed an agreement with JSC SIBUR-Neftehim (SIBUR) to provide its licensed pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) processing technologies, including design of the fractionation, first and second stage hydrotreating, aromatics extraction and thermal hydrodealkylation technologies for the…
Honeywell today announced that Fujian Meide Petrochemical Co., Ltd. will use the Honeywell Process Reliability Advisor to provide prescriptive monitoring of its UOP C3 Oleflex unit in China. The Oleflex unit is designed to convert propane into 660,000 tons per…
TechnipFMC (Houston; www.technipfmc.com) and BTG-BTL (Twente, the Netherlands) will design and build a production facility in Sweden where wood residues will be converted into bio-oil. It will be the first plant in the world where ‘green fuel’ will be produced…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) has joined forces with water treatment company Van Remmen UV Technology on a novel method to address the growing concern of pharmaceutical micropollutants in waste water. The process, which combines the Advanox ultraviolet (UV) treatment…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has officially begun construction on its largest investment to date in Germany. Armin Laschet, the minister president of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Christian Kullmann, the chairman of the executive board of…
The engineering software developer Aucotec AG (Hannover, Germany; www.aucotec.com) acquired a new major client in the oil, gas, wind and solar energy sectors: Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil; Stavanger, Norway; www.equinor.com), will be digitizing and maintaining its plants with Aucotec's data-driven,…
The Daesan integrated petroleum-refining and petrochemicals complex in South Korea, owned by Hanwha Total Petrochemical — A 50–50 joint venture between Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and Hanwha Group (Seoul, South Korea; www.hanwha.com) — has started its new ethylene production…