Materials manufacturer Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) has signed an agreement with Serafin Group (Augsburg, Germany; www.serafin-gruppe.de) for the sale of Covestro’s European polycarbonate sheets business, which comprises manufacturing units in Belgium and Italy, central management operations and sales support in…
TEESS, a 50/50 joint venture company, established by Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), and Envision Group (Shanghai, China; www.envision-group.com), a global leading smart-energy-technology company, launches its commercial activity to develop on site distributed generation solar projects for B2B customers in…
Linde (Pullach, Germany; www.linde.com) developed a novel process to recover high-value products from natural gas, successfully combining leading technologies of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Linde. The process simultaneously recovers valuable helium, liquid hydrocarbons, and purified CO2 in addition…
Huntsman Corp.(The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) announced the opening of its new polyurethanes systems house in Dubai. Situated within the Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone (JAFZA), the purpose-built facility strengthens Huntsman's downstream capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa -…
The “Recycling Li-ion batteries for electric Vehicle” (ReLieVe) project, founded by Eramet (Paris, France; www.eramet.com), BASF SE (Ludwighafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr), will receive a substantial funding of €4.7 million by EIT Raw Materials, a consortium initiated…
SUEZ NWS (www.suesz-nws-com), the China-based operating company of SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr) recently won a contract with total investment of RMB 300 million (around $42 million) for centralized wastewater treatment in the Dongying Chemical Industry Park located in Dongying, Shandong.…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. has signed with Egypt Hydrocarbon Corp., a subsidiary of Carbon Holdings, a preliminary engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract related to the implementation of a new Ammonia plant…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has announced that Air Liquide Philippines and Pilipinas Shell signed a long-term contract for supply of hydrogen to Shell’s Tabangao refinery in Batangas, Philippines. The new venture will secure for the Tabangao refinery a continuous…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that China Petrochemical International Co., Ltd (Sinopec International) has selected LyondellBasell’s world-leading polypropylene (PP) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) technologies for a new facility. The plants will be built at the Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical…
For the recently announced project to establish a lyocell production facility in Thailand, The Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria; www.lenzing.com) has selected Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodplc.com) as its professional engineering partner for crucial tasks such as detailed engineering, purchasing and…