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Madden plant

Ma'aden advances Saudi phosphate project

Added: 22 May 2012

Pasadena, California – Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group …

SABIC CAMERA Teesside

SABIC adds ATEX cameras at Teesside site

Added: 21 May 2012

Middlesbrough, UK — SABIC UK Petrochemicals Ltd has installed ATEX explosion proof digital cameras …

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Oxford Catalysts technology for Russian GTL plant

Added: 17 May 2012

Abingdon, UK – Microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor technology developed by the Oxford Catalys…

Biofuel

Green chemistry for polymers

Added: 17 May 2012

Cologne, Germany – In the long-term industry will have to find substitutes for fossil fuels as supp…

Eni chemicals plant

Eni: Euro2bn and new name for chemicals business

Added: 10 May 2012

Rome – Eni has renamed its Polimeri Europa division Versalis, as part of a major new investment str…

IChemE MU students

Manchester students net IChemE sustainability prize

Added: 10 May 2012

Manchester, UK – A project to turn corn waste into succinic acid has earned an international sustai…

Energy is the biggest concern for UK chemicals makers

Added: 9 May 2012

London - The continuing high cost of energy in the UK is a major barrier to future jobs and growth,…

Dow Freeport shale

Dow to tap further into shale-gas feedstock resources

Added: 9 May 2012

Midland, Michigan - Dow Chemical Co. is to construct a new world-scale ethylene production plant at…

BASF

Contracts & Projects Tracker: Chemicals

Added: 9 May 2012

Current activity in the chemicals sector

US team claims bio-PET advance

Added: 8 May 2012

London - Chemical engineers in the US has discovered a new way to make monomer feedstock for PET bo…

PVS Chems valves

Valves help PVS deliver ultra-pure sulphuric acid

Added: 8 May 2012

Ingolstadt, Germany – PVS Chemicals, which produces extremely pure chemicals for the semiconductor …

Dounreay Diver

Dounreay clean-up moves offshore

Added: 3 May 2012

Work to clean up radioactive contamination that leaked from Dounreay more than two decades ago is s…

New owners kickstart UK petchem projects

Added: 26 Apr 2012

Taunton, UK – Recent changes in ownership are enabling some long-delayed capital investment project…

Formosa UV water Hanovia

Formosa Chemical adds UV disinfection at Taiwan plants

Added: 20 Apr 2012

Taiwan – Formosa Chemical and Fibre Corp. is employing UV technology from Hanovia to disinfect cool…

INEOS boss: Process safety is everyone's business

Added: 17 Apr 2012

London – Process safety management (PSM) is “the make-or-break issue” for the process industries. a…

KBR to provide ethylene furnace for INEOS Olefins

Added: 13 Apr 2012

Houston, Texas – INEOS has engaged KBR to design and construct an ethylene furnace for one of its i…

Chemicals processing

BASF signs up Fluor as global engineering partner

Added: 6 Apr 2012

Houston, Texas – BASF has selected Fluor Corp. as its engineering partner for chemicals capital pro…

German speciality chemicals maker adds mobile SCADA

Added: 5 Apr 2012

London – Speciality chemicals manufacturer Allessa Chemie has implemented a mobile SCADA system at …

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BASF to set up Euro150m chemicals site in India

Added: 2 Apr 2012

Mumbai, India - BASF is investing Euro150 million to set up a new chemical production site, in Guja…

Linde air separation plant

Linde to supply Aramco/Dow petchem complex

Added: 27 Mar 2012

London – Linde is to supply Sadara Chemical Co.with CO, H2 and ammonia at a chemical complex now be…