Sinopec Qilu Petrochemical Corporation has chosen Topsoe’s Catox catalyst for cost-efficient control of volatile organic compounds (VOC) at their rubber plant in Zibo, China. The facility has two lines with a total capacity of 240,000 Nm3/h, which makes it the largest current styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) emissions control project in Asia.

Big in the East: How industry experts use local expertise to provide customers with high performance technologies — Vekamaf has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a local machine distributor to an international technology services provider. Today, industry expertise combined with state of the art equipment are the specialty of the Dutch company. In the end, it’s all about the customer.

MAN Energy Solutions has been awarded a contract by Oman LNG to equip a new power plant with nine 51/60 gas engines.

With the long-expected Tahrir project, Egypt is intending to build the largest petrochemical project in the Middle East. Eleven plants including a Naphta Cracker will produce about 1.5 million tons of ethylene and 880,000 tons of propylene.

Eurochem singed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Heilongjiang Beidahuang Farms, part of Beidahuang Group, China’s largest agricultural company for the supply of potash and NPK fertilizers.

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess announced plans to open a new applications development and technical services (AD & TS) laboratory for polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) in Latina, Italy.

Unmanned offshore rigs and production platform have become a standard in today’s oil and gas industry. Automation is the technology that enables running oil production on the high seas without having actual workers on the rig. Now, new integrated electrical and communication solutions shall increase productivity at seven unmanned oil platforms off the UAE coast…

Designed with advanced ion selective electrode (ISE) sensors and a highly intelligent transmitter, the new plug-and-play Ammonium Hydra-DS Analyzer from Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD) simplifies the accurate measurement of harmful nutrients (nitrogen) over a broad range to help assure water quality.

Dow is getting serious with its announced cost cutting program: the American company, one of the largest chemical companies in the world, plans to get rid of several production sites, mainly in Europe. These plans put 900 jobs at stake

Catalysts, whether heterogeneous or homogenous, ignite the turbo in reactors and have what it takes to make future dreams come true. The wish list includes things like the age-old dream of using carbon dioxide as a chemical feedstock.