As part of its five-year investment to boost capacity and operational excellence within its global plastics additives business, BASF has awarded Emerson a multi-million-dollar contract to modernize automation software and controllers at its specialty chemical production facility in Lampertheim, Germany. These enhancements are to help the world’s largest chemical manufacturer increase production flexibility and enhance operations.

Adnoc and OCI have plans to form a joint venture under which Adnoc will combine its fertilizer business, Adnoc Fertilizers, into OCI’s Middle East and North Africa (Mena) nitrogen fertilizer platform. With a production capacity of 5 million tonnes of urea and 1.5 million tonnes of sellable ammonia, the JV is expected to be the largest producer in the Mena region.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a new Total Residual Oxidant (TRO) analyzer to address the needs of the wastewater industry, which calls for a robust, dependable instrument capable of reliably measuring low ppb chlorine concentrations in effluent and treated wastewater in line with stringent regulatory requirements.

The first Rembe rupture discs came onto the German market in the early 70s — at that time they were still completely machined by hand. Today, the company from the Sauerland region does not just develop and manufacture safety concepts for plants and equipment of the process industries. The focus is always on finding the optimum solution to protect the plant, people and the environment.

Sasol has recently shared an update on the Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP), which is situated in Louisiana, USA. According to the new plan, the cost estimate for the project has been revised to a range of 12.6 – 12.9 billion dollars which includes a contingency of 300 million dollars.

Following the capacity increase of its syngas production facility in Bay City, Texas, USA, the chemical company Oxea is in the last stages of completion of a feasibility study of additional downstream plant expansion projects.

The project has been awarded by Anwil and will be responsible for producing 1,265 metric tonnes of nitric acid and 1,200 tonnes of ammonium nitrate per day. Thyssenkrupp’s patented Envi NOx process will be used to remove green house gases from nitric acid production.

De Lille Oxygen has opted for two Ecos units. One is located at their customer’s site for flexible over-the-fence delivery of CO. The other will deliver on-demand CO for the rest of their customers from the company’s headquarter in Columbus, Ohio.

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