Egypt’s Alexandria National Refining & Petrochemicals Company (ANRPC) will use UOP (a Honeywell company) technology and equipment as part of a $300 million, multi-year project to expand an existing, state-of-the-art gasoline production facility to meet growing domestic demand for high-octane gasoline.

Oneok plans to invest approximately $ 2.3 billion between now and 2020 to expand the infrastructure for NGL and Natural Gas in the US. The strategic projects complement the recently announced Elk Creek pipeline, increasing Oneok's ability to deliver NGLs from the Rocky Mountain region to growing markets in the Gulf Coast.

Some companies feel that they can project manage new processing facilities themselves, bringing in sub-contracted help only when it’s needed. They can, of course, but Thorsten Vammen, Director at GEA Liquid Processing in Skanderborg, Denmark, suggests another way. For, in the end, are the total cost of ownership that matter.

The thin-film drying technology from Gig Karasek can be used for continuous drying of suspensions, municipal sludges, slurries, pastes, wet solids, filter cakes and chemical products.

Yokogawa China has been awarded an order by Zhejiang Petrochemical to supply 190 gas chromatographs for the first phase of a project to construct an integrated refinery and petrochemical production complex at a new industrial site in the Zhoushan archipelago, China.

Kirloskar Brothers (KBL) today handed over its technological marvel to the first-of-its-kind 500MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) project in India underway by Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI).

BASF and top universities jointly develop new process improving the bioavailability of active ingredients. The Supersonic spray-drying process yields stable and soluble amorphous nanoparticles.

British engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler announces the award of a contract by Yuhuang Chemical (YCI), a US-based subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company (SYCC), for its first major project in the US, a 1.7 million tons per year world-scale methanol facility on the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

Praxair has signed an agreement to acquire Yara International ASA’s (Yara) European CO2 business. The proposed transaction also includes Praxair’s acquisition of Yara’s remaining 34 % stake in the Yara Praxair Holding AS industrial gas joint venture in Scandinavia. The investment for both transactions is expected to be 312 million euros.

For the production of cosmetics and pharmaceutical products as well as for the processing of foodstuff, a special thoroughness and cleanliness must be ensured to consumers. For this reason, particularly high demands are placed for equipment which is used in these branches.