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First Axens PolyFuel unit successfully started up at Petrobrazi refinery

After four years of teamwork for project development and execution, the new PolyFuel unit at Petrobrazi petroleum refinery in Brazii de Sus, Romania, was started up and is fully functional since April 2019. Based on the PolyFuel technology licensed by…

2019 CEPCI Updates: May (prelim.) and April (final)

The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for May 2019 decreased from the previous month’s value. The decline is the third within the last four months. The lower value for the overall CEPCI…

SNC-Lavalin awarded EPCM of the Aripuanã polymetallic Project in Brazil

SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract from NEXA Resources for the Aripuanã polymetallic project in the state of Mato Grosso, in the Central-West of Brazil. SNC-Lavalin will deliver EPCM services for…

Nouryon doubles dicumyl peroxide production capacity in China

Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) has doubled production capacity for dicumyl peroxide (DCP) at its site in Ningbo, China after completing a major expansion project. The plant is the largest of its kind in the world and can now produce…

Grace licenses PP process technology to Nayara Energy in India

W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has licensed its UNIPOL Polypropylene (PP) Process Technology to Nayara Energy.  Located at the Vadinar Refinery in Gujarat, India, the new, world-scale capacity UNIPOL PP facility will utilize 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…

Haldor Topsoe to build demonstration plant for CO2-neutral methanol production

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) will build a 10-kg/h methanol plant to demonstrate the company’s electrified and extremely compact eSMR Methanol technology for cost-competitive production of sustainable methanol from biogas. The eSMR Methanol technology exploits the full carbon potential…

DuPont opens probiotics manufacturing plant in New York

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art probiotics fermentation unit at its Rochester, New York, facility. Construction of the unit was completed in March as part of an overall $100 million investment to expand probiotics capacity.…

ISA launches Global Cybersecurity Alliance

The International Society of Automation (ISA; Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.isa.org), developer of ANSI/ISA 62443 series of automation and control systems cybersecurity standards (adopted by the International Electrotechnical Commission and endorsed by the United Nations), has created an open, collaborative…

OMV to construct high-purity isobutene plant at Burghausen refinery

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria; www.omv.com) has made the decision to invest €64 million in the construction of an isobutene (ISO C4) plant – the building phase is now imminent: construction of the new plant will begin in summer 2019 at…

Aspen Tech announces two acquisitions to boost AI, visualization offerings

 Aspen Technology, Inc. (www.aspentech.com) has signed an agreement to acquire Mnubo Inc., a Montreal-based provider of purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT). Mnubo enables industrial companies to assemble and deploy AI-driven IoT applications…