Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) announced on October 26, 2018 its decision to invest in a new greenfield valve technology center in Jiaxing, China. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant took place today. The new technology center will start…
Sulzer Chemtech (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) was appointed by ArcelorMittal to provide distillation equipment to its steel production plant in Gent, Belgium. This will help in converting waste gases from the steel manufacturing process into approximately 80 million liters of bioethanol…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has contracted to license its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to Hanwha Total Petrochemical Co., Ltd. for a new polypropylene (PP) production facility in Daesan, South Korea. With a capacity of 400,000 metric…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has recently won a contract from ArcelorMittal to supply a new coke battery for the Tubarão steel plant, located in the Espirito Santo state in southeastern Brazil. The new coke battery will replace…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans to build a second liquid hydrogen production facility in California to meet increasing product demand from several customer markets, including the growing fleet of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV) in the state. Project…
Loop Industries, Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.loopindustries.com), a technology innovator in sustainably produced plastic, and thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) division, Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH, a global polyester technology provider and polyester plant engineering firm, announced a strategic alliance expected to…
Azerbaijan´s state energy company SOCAR recently held an opening ceremony for its new Biturox plant in the Heydar Aliyev Refinery near Baku, Azerbaijan. EPCM-Engineering Partner Pörner and SOCAR announced a successful commissioning as first part of the refinery reconstruction. SOCAR…
Atlas Copco AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.atlascopcogroup.com) has acquired Industrie Pumpen Vertriebs GmbH (IPV). The company is a distributor of industrial pumps for the Varisco brand. IPV is based in Dresden, Germany. The company had revenues of approximately €5 million in…
Silicon Valley-based Xage Security announced an investment from Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saev.com), a subsidiary of integrated energy and chemicals company Saudi Aramco. Xage also welcomes Norman Thorlakson to its leadership team as SVP of Sales and…
Shell Chemical LP (Houston, Tex.; www.shell.us) today announced the start of production of the fourth alpha-olefins (AO) unit at its Geismar, La. chemical manufacturing site. The 425,000-ton/yr capacity expansion brings total AO production at Geismar to more than 1.3 million…