Swiss engineering is known for ingenuity and precision – India, on the other hand, is a lively melting pot and recent boom market of all kinds of process industries. Can a cooperation make the best use of the strength both countries have? Thats what we asked Alf Zips and Shyam Warialani of Baumer...

With the mega investment, Akzo Nobel has plans to add three additional production lines to its facility in China. The move will also support additional supplies of acrylic powder coatings, metallic powder coatings and powder primers for the automotive sector.

The project has been awarded by SCE Chemicals and is expected to produce caustic soda, hydrochloric acid and sodium hypochlorite chlorine. The new Chlor-Alkali Plant is scheduled to be complete by 2020.

Petroleum Development Oman’s mega project has begun gas production from six sour wells in Oman. Under the terms of the contract, Petrofac has provided engineering, procurement, construction management and commissioning support services worth around 1.25 billion dollars for the project.

The Chemical Process Industry is making a concerted effort to find an alternative to oil. Natural gas, coal and biomass are all potential sources of basic chemicals, and syngas production can make a bigger contribution than it has so far.

Petro Logistics ll will make use of Dow’s proprietary fluidized catalytic dehydrogenation technology for the project which will be located on the US Gulf Coast. The specialised technology is expected to provide enhanced reliability as well as lower capital cost and energy consumption for the plant.

OMV Petrom’s Petrobrazi refinery has utilised Axens’ polyfuel technology in the new unit to upgrade LPG and light cracked naphtha into high quality fuels. The new facility is fully functional since April of this year.

At least 12 people were killed in a gas plant explosion in the central Chinese province of Henan. Xinhua news agency reported that the explosion happened in the air separation unit of the Yima gas factory of Henan Coal Gas.

The new plant will be situated at the Vadinar Refinery in Gujarat, India and is expected to make use of 450 KTA of propylene feedstock. With Grace’s new technology, Nayara Energy aims to produce phthalate-free homopolymer products for the Indian market and use the most advanced PP process and catalysts technology for its project.

The contracts are for the MJ1 field located in deep water offshore India in the Krishna Godavari basin and include the fabrication and installation of flexible risers, rigid and flexible flowlines and umbilicals.