Hyundai Chemical Company, Ltd. (Daesan, South Korea; www.hyundaicorp.com/en/business/chemical) has chosen Univation Technologies’ (Houston; www.univation.com) UNIPOL PE Technology for a 300 kTA (kilotons per year) high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant to be located at Hyundai’s site in Daesan, Republic of Korea.…
As part of its five-year investment to boost capacity and operational excellence within its global plastics additives business, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has awarded Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) a multi-million dollar contract to modernize automation software and…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for March 2019 decreased from the previous month’s value for the second consecutive month, although the final value for February was adjusted slightly upward. The decline…
Lotte Chemical USA (Lake Charles, La.; www.lottechem.com) and Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston, Tex.; www.westlake.com) hosted an official opening ceremony on May 9, 2019, for their joint-venture Ethylene and the Lotte Chemical world-scale Ethylene Glycol (EG) Production Facility near Lake Charles,…
Trey Walters, P.E., President and Founder of Applied Flow Technology (AFT; Colorado Springs, Colo.; www.aft.com), has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This recognition is the society's highest membership grade of distinction. Trey is one…
Thyssenkrupp’s Industrial Solutions business area (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has received a new order for the construction of a fertilizer plant in Poland. The customer for the project is ANWIL, a subsidiary of PKN ORLEN, one of the largest oil industry…
The TASI Group (Harrison, Ohio; www.tasigroup.com) continues the growth of its Flow Segment business with the recent acquisition of Sierra Instruments, Sierra Instruments Inc. (Monterey, Calif.; www.sierrainstruments.com), a global company specializing in the manufacture of flow measurement instrumentation. This is…
Haldor Topsoe A/S's (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) ClearView Hydrogen is a complete connected plant service that leverages the power of continuous upload of data to offer plant owners improved asset utilization, energy savings, and less unplanned downtime. Based on a stream…
Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany; www.bilfinger.com) has been commissioned by lubricant manufacturer Fuchs to install modern production equipment and piping systems at its new blending plant in Haninge near Stockholm. The Swedish Bilfinger team will weld approximately 15,000 welding joints between…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that a groundbreaking event was held today for Bayer AG’s (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayer.com) first-of-a-kind cell culture technology center in Berkeley, California. Fluor is providing a single point of responsibility for engineering, procurement, construction management…