Air Liquide (Paris; www.airlqiuide.com) and Shell Chemicals, one of the world’s leading chemicals suppliers, signed renewal contracts for the supply of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Steam and Electricity to Shell’s Scotford facility near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. To support this renewed long-term…
Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) has awarded Veolia (Paris; www.veolia.com) - via its Veolia Middle East subsidiary - the contract for the operation and maintenance of its refinery wastewater treatment plant in Al-Zour in southern Kuwait. A $63 million…
ExxonMobil (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) started production on a new high-performance polyethylene line at its Beaumont, Texas polyethylene plant. The expansion increases plant production capacity by 65% or 650,000 tons per year, bringing site capacity to nearly 1.7 million tons per…
Honeywell announced that Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) has awarded reconfiguration of refining and petrochemicals sections of its Al-Zour refinery to Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com). The newly designed complex will increase the plant’s output capacity of fuels…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.3 percent in June after rising only 0.1 percent in May, falling 0.3 percent in April and showing a weak first quarter. In June,…
Effective agitation of fluids for blending and motion requires a detailed analysis of capacity, viscosity and dynamic response for the fluid system, in order to find power and shaft speed of the agitator and corresponding sized of the turbine impeller.…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), eased 0.2 percent in July on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis following three months of gains in March-May and weak…
The new on-line World Input-Output Database (WIOD) environmental accounts (www.wiod.org/release16) was launched today by the Joint Research Centre (JRC; https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en). The database contains figures on the industrial and household energy use of residents in more than 40 countries and their…
Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) announced that SEKISUI YOUNGBO HPP (WUXI) CO., a consolidated subsidiary of Sekisui located in Jiangsu Provine, China, commenced mass production and sales in May 2019. Sekisui Youngbo is a company that primarily manufactures polypropylene…
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.storaenso.com) is investing €10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin. Wood-based carbon can be utilized as a crucial component in batteries typically used in consumer electronics, the…