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February 13, 2013
VCI: Free world trade is at the top of the political agenda
The German Chemical Industry Assn. (Verband der Chemischen Industrie, VCI; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.vci.de) supports a rapid start of negotiations between the E.U. and the U.S. towards a transatlantic free trade zone. The VCI’s director-general Dr. Utz Tillmann is glad that U.S. President Obama gives the green light for talks about a comprehensive trade partnership. Tillmann states: “We...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/VCI-Free-world-trade-is-at-the-top-of-the-political-agenda_10226.html
February 13, 2013
Solvay to build a new silica plant in Poland
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) says it will invest €75 million to build a new 85,000-ton/yr Highly Dispersible Silica (HDS) plant in Wloclawek, Poland. Combined with a further capacity expansion at its site in Qingdao (China), these two investments will increase Solvay's global highly dispersible silica production capacity by an additional 30%. Located in central Poland, close to key...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Solvay-to-build-a-new-silica-plant-in-Poland_10227.html
February 12, 2013
Commercial-scale production of bio-based BDO announced
Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) and DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Co., (DT&L; Loudon, Tenn.; www.duponttateandlyle.com) announced the first successful commercial-scale production of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) using a bio-based manufacturing process.  BDO is an intermediate chemical used in a wide variety of applications including athletic apparel, electronics and automotive...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Commercial-scale-production-of-bio-based-BDO-announced_10221.html
February 12, 2013
Metso strengthens its automation service capabilities in Thailand
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has opened a new automation service center in Ratchaburi, Thailand. The service center supports Metso’s strategy to grow its Automation business globally and strengthens Metso’s service capabilities in Thailand. Metso has large installed base for process automation products and valves especially in Thai pulp and paper industry, with customers like...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Metso-strengthens-its-automation-service-capabilities-in-Thailand_10223.html
February 12, 2013
Jacobs awarded contract for Luberef Yanbu refinery expansion
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract from Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Co. (Luberef) to provide project management consulting (PMC) services for an expansion project at its lube oil refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. Officials did not disclose the contract value, however noted that the overall expansion project cost is...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Jacobs-awarded-contract-for-Luberef-Yanbu-refinery-expansion_10224.html
February 11, 2013
SensoTech opens subsidiary in the U.S.
The SensoTech GmbH (Magdeburg–Barleben, Germany; www.sensotech.com) extends its market presence in North America with a new U.S. subsidiary and thereby reinforces significantly its globally networked team of sales and service staff. As a subsidiary of the German SensoTech GmbH, SensoTech Inc., which is located in Wayne, New Jersey, closely works together with already existing sales representatives of...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/SensoTech-opens-subsidiary-in-the-U-S-_10218.html
February 11, 2013
Neste Jacobs to deliver an isomerization unit to Neste Oil at Porvoo refinery
Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) will deliver engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services to construction of an isomerization unit at Neste Oil Porvoo petroleum refinery. The investment, valued at approximately €65 million, is intended to increase the output of high-octane gasoline and improve refining...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Neste-Jacobs-to-deliver-an-isomerization-unit-to-Neste-Oil-at-Porvoo-refinery_10219.html
February 8, 2013
Wholesale chemistry sales rose in December in the U.S., ACC report says
Sales of chemical products at the wholesale level in the U.S. rose 1.2% to $10.3 billion in December 2012 according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau that was discussed in the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Wholesale-chemistry-sales-rose-in-December-in-the-U-S-ACC-report-says_10216.html
February 7, 2013
Smaller, local transactions drive drive global chemicals M&A activity, PwC says
While merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the global chemicals sector rose slightly in 2012 due to an increase in smaller acquisitions, continued uncertainty around the state of the global economy probably constrained growth and contributed to a decrease in total deal value compared to the prior year. Despite ongoing global concerns, M&A activity in advanced economies including North America...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Smaller-local-transactions-drive-drive-global-chemicals-M-and-A-activity-PwC-says_10211.html
February 7, 2013
Fluor construction-management project underway for new biotech facility in Georgia
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says it is currently performing early construction management services for Baxter International Inc.’s (Deerfield, Ill.; www.baxter.com) new biotechnology facility near Covington...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Fluor-construction-management-project-underway-for-new-biotech-facility-in-Georgia_10212.html
February 7, 2013
KBR to provide Purifier technology package for ammonia/urea plant in Indonesia
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it was selected by PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang, to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for a new 2,000 metric tons (m.t.) per...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/KBR-to-provide-Purifier-technology-package-for-ammoniaurea-plant-in-Indonesia_10213.html
February 7, 2013
Air Liquide invests €65 million in the Port of Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second largest chemical and petrochemical basin in Europe. This industry has maintained its momentum, despite the crisis, across Western Europe, with dynamic players demonstrating sustained demand for industrial gases. In this context, AirLiquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) will invest an additional €65 million in the...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Air-Liquide-invests-&euro65-million-in-the-Port-of-Rotterdam_10215.html
February 6, 2013
Wacker opens new dispersions plant in South Korea
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) officially launched its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Ulsan site in South Korea. The additional 40,000 metric tons (m.t.) from the second reactor line increases the site’s VAE-dispersion capacity to a total of 90,000 m.t./yr. The production capacity of the site has thus almost doubled...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Wacker-opens-new-dispersions-plant-in-South-Korea_10203.html
February 6, 2013
Shell captures CO2 with MAN integrally-geared centrifugal compressor
MAN Diesel & Turbo (MDT; Berlin, Germany; www.mandieselturbo.com) is providing the compressor technology for Shell Canada’s Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project, located in Alberta, Canada. Quest will be the world’s first commercial-scale CCS project to tackle carbon emissions in an oil sand operation. Quest will capture more than one million metric tons (m.t.) per year of CO2...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Shell-captures-CO2-with-MAN-integrally-geared-centrifugal-compressor_10204.html
February 6, 2013
Forest BtL selects Axens’ Gasel F-T Technology Suite
Forest BtL Oy (Vantaa, Finland; www.forestbtl.com) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net)  have signed a license for the use of Gasel technology suite in the Biomass to Liquid (BtL) plant to be constructed in Ajos, near the city of Kemi, Finland. Ajos BtL is a NER300 supported...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Forest-BtL-selects-Axens-Gasel-F-T-Technology-Suite_10205.html
February 6, 2013
Biofuels-industry CEOs to support "second-generation" biofuels in all EU transport sectors
The chief executive officers of seven leading European biofuel producers and European airlines launched today in Brussels a new industry-led initiative to speed up the deployment of advanced sustainable biofuels in Europe.   The initiative, called “Leaders of Sustainable Biofuels,” aims at supporting the development of second-generation biofuels in Europe. The leaders of Chemtex...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Biofuels-industry-CEOs-to-support-"second-generation"-biofuels-in-all-EU-transport-sectors_10208.html
February 6, 2013
ACC releases report on exports in the chemical sector
American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washgton, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) President and CEO Cal Dooley joined U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Craig Morrison, President and CEO of Momentive Performance Materials Holdings LLC and Chairman of the ACC Board of Directors, and John Paro, Chairman, President and CEO of The HallStar Company, on Capitol Hill today to announce the release of a...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/ACC-releases-report-on-exports-in-the-chemical-sector_10209.html
February 6, 2013
Italian industry-academic collaboration on breakthrough innovation
An official ceremony took place today with Giovanni Azzone, rector of Politecnico di Milano (www.polimi.it), and Fabrizio Di Amato, CEO and chairman of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.com) for the signature of a framework agreement for a scientific collaboration between Maire Tecnimont Group and Politecnico di Milano University in Breakthrough Innovation, so-called radical innovation. The...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Italian-industry-academic-collaboration-on-breakthrough-innovation_10210.html
February 5, 2013
Teijin Chemicals to establish JV with SK Chemicals
Teijin Chemicals Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.co.jp), the core company of the Teijin Group’s resin and plastic processing business, announced an agreement with SK Chemicals, a South Korean chemical producer, on a business collaboration, including the establishment of a joint venture to develop, produce and distribute polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resins and compounds in July. The joint venture (JV)...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Teijin-Chemicals-to-establish-JV-with-SK-Chemicals_10200.html
February 5, 2013
Praxair to acquire NuCO2 for $1.1 billion
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire NuCO2 INC. from Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles, California based private equity firm, for $1.1 billion in cash. The transaction is subject to customary conditions to closing, including regulatory approval, and is expected to close by the end of the first...
http://www.che.com/only_on_che/latest_news/Praxair-to-acquire-NuCO2-for-$1-1-billion_10201.html
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