To upgrade one of their facilities in Belgium, BP Chembel contracted Jacobs Engineering to provide engineering services.

Alternative fuels and bio–chemicals specialists Aemetis bring back their newly upgraded 50 million gallon per year capacity biodiesel and refined glycerin production facility in Kakinada, India. The revamped plant now posses the ability to produce high-quality distilled biodiesel, the company states.

Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, a division of Exxon Mobil Corporation, announced that it is expanding the capacity of its global hydrocarbon fluid assets by more than 250,000 tons per year at its world-scale petrochemical sites in Antwerp, Belgium; Baytown, Texas; and Jurong Island, Singapore.

Praxair (China) Investment Company, in a joint venture with Chongqing Chemical and Pharmaceutical Holding Group Company (CCPHC), will supply oxygen, nitrogen and clean dry air to a major integrated chemical production complex in Chongqing (Changshou) Chemical Industrial Park.

The plants will be built at BASF’s Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China and are expected to cater to the global demand for engineering plastics and TPU. The company has plans to invest 10 billion dollars in the Verbund site.

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.

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.

Under the agreement, Wuxi STA will become the preferred CDMO partner of Dizal Pharmaceutical for the production of GMP. With this, Wuxi STA will provide integrated CMC process research and manufacturing services from API to drug product.

A White Paper Modular Plants, written by the temporary ProcessNet working group, gives an overview on current t and product cycles in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

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