Technology and Innovations - Page 1

Davy and Dow license oxo alcohols technology to Chinese plant
Wednesday, November 02, 2011 Davy Process Technology and Dow Chemical's oxygenated solvents business have licensed their LP Oxo Selector technology to Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy's new oxo alcohols plant in...

CB&I licenses technology for olefin units
Monday, October 31, 2011 CB&I's Lummus Technology business has been awarded a contract by China Coal Shaanxi Yulin Energy & Chemical to provide licence and engineering design for two light olefins recovery units in...

Badger to provide technology for Chinese cumene plant
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Badger Licensing has been awarded a contract by Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical to provide its proprietary technology for a 300,000t/year grassroots cumene plant in Dongying City, Shandong Province,...

Ineos licenses polypropylene technology for Sinopec project
Monday, October 24, 2011 Ineos Technologies has licensed its Innovene polypropylene process to Sinopec Maoming for the manufacture of polypropylene homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers in Maoming...

POSCO Engineering wins polymers compounding plant contract
Thursday, October 20, 2011 Saudi International Petrochemical (Sipchem) and Hanwha Chemical's affiliate Gulf Advanced Cable Insulation has awarded an Engineering Design, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for...

Shell's non-phosgene DPC manufacturing process moves closer to commercialisation
Monday, October 17, 2011 Shell Chemicals has said it is “very close” to commercialising a less costly process of producing diphenyl carbonate (DPC) which avoids using the highly toxic chemical compound...

Aramco awards Jazan refinery and aromatics complex contract to Axens
Thursday, September 29, 2011 Saudi Aramco has awarded a contract to Axens to provide its process technologies for its Jazan refinery and terminal project, as well as the associated aromatics...

Badger bags contracts for LG Chem cumene and bisphenol A projects
Monday, September 26, 2011 Badger Licensing has been awarded a contract by LG Chem to license its proprietary technology for a 200,000t/year cumene plant and a 120,000t/year bisphenol A plant in Daesan, South...

SK Engineering and Construction to build $3.5bn petrochemical plant in Egypt
Thursday, September 22, 2011 South Korea's SK Engineering and Construction has partnered with US-based Shaw Group and Egyptian firm Carbon Holdings to build a $3.5bn petrochemical plant in...

Researchers Develop Material That Catalyses Two Chemical Reactions
Friday, April 15, 2011 Researchers at University of California Berkeley in the US have designed a novel material that can catalyse two separate, sequential reactions to produce industrially relevant intermediates in...

AkzoNobel to Increase Bermocoll Cellulose Derivatives Production
Friday, March 25, 2011 AkzoNobel will invest more than €60m to increase the capacity of its Bermocoll cellulose derivatives (paint and building material thickeners). Under the expansion plan, the Dutch...

UOP to Provide Technology to Petrochemical Complex
Thursday, March 24, 2011 UOP, a Honeywell company, has announced that its technology has been selected by Great Orient Chemical for a new petrochemical complex in China that will produce the primary ingredient...

Kazakhstan Plans Polyethylene Plant
Monday, March 21, 2011 Kazakhstan is negotiating with South Korea's Hanwha Chemical, Japan's Marubeni and the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government to finance a KZT645bn ($4.4bn) polyethylene plant. ...

Genomatica Raises Investment for Green Chemical Plant
Friday, March 04, 2011 Genomatica has raised an additional $45m to complete a demonstration project to prove its green chemistry technology can work on a commercial-scale. The new investment will be used to scale...

Süd-Chemie and German University Partner for Catalysis Research
Thursday, December 02, 2010 Süd-Chemie and the University of Technology in Munich, Germany, have teamed up for a €20m ($26m) catalysis research project. In addition to basic research in the field of...

German Ministry Funds Carbon Dioxide Project
Wednesday, December 01, 2010 Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research has pledged €2.2m ($2.9m) to a project that will explore the economical and ecological use of carbon dioxide on an industrial...

Braskem and Ineos Form Polyethylene Technology Partnership
Monday, November 15, 2010 Braskem has signed an agreement with Ineos Technologies to acquire slurry technologies for two of its three polyethylene plants at the Ethylene XXI petrochemicals project in Mexico. Under...

Aarti Upgrades its Hydrogenation Technology
Thursday, August 19, 2010 Indian speciality chemicals manufacturer Aarti Industries has upgraded its hydrogenation technology to boost production capacity. The eco-friendly Buss Loop Hydrogenation Technology...

Solutia Develops Encapsulant to Prevent Solar Cell Corrosion
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Solutia has developed an advanced encapsulant to prevent corrosion in solar cells. Solutia said its Saflex PS41 PVB, which restricts discolouration, can also be used in...

Czech Chemical Plant Deploys Energy Saving System
Thursday, July 29, 2010 Unipetrol has implemented AspenTech's advanced process control (APC) system at its ethylene production plant in Litvinov, Czech Republic, to make energy savings of €2m ($2.59m) a year. ...