KBR has been awarded a new contract for proprietary equipment and has also restarted work under the contract awarded by Tecnimont (part of Maire Tecnimont Group) previously announced in December 2011 for the License and Basic Engineering Design (BED) of a new ammonia plant to be built by Chemical Industries Holding (Kima) in Aswan, Egypt.

Lyondell Basell announced the cooperation with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Kit) to advance the chemical recycling of plastic materials. The focus of the venture is to develop a new catalyst and process technology to decompose post-consumer plastic waste, such as packaging into monomers for reuse in polymerization processes.

South America has overcome the crisis quickly. Now especially Brazil, the new Latin American powerhouse, aims for a place among the world's leading economies... More in the second part of our market report series "Chemical Industry of the Americas".

Italvacuum is one of Europe’s best-known manufacturers of vacuum dryers and vacuum pumps for pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, chemicals and cosmetics. This article discusses the company’s Multispray cabinet dryer, the Tumble rotary cylindrical vacuum dryer and the Saurus939 range of vacuum pumps.

Aker expands its production of subsea umbilicals to Asia–Pacific: The company recently announced plans to build a new umbilical manufacturing plant in Pekan, Malaysia, to meet an aticipated regional demand.

North America was especially affected by the economy crisis of 2008. Now, four years after, the US chemical industry is cautiously optimistic as shale gas and specialities fuel the growth. Also Mexico has reasons to expect further development, while Canada fears the 2010 boom could soon be over.

Toyo Engineering Corporation has been awarded a contract by Map Ta Phut Olefins, a joint venture company of SCG Chemicals and Dow, for offshore engineering and procurement services of an olefin expansion project.

Modern soap manufacturers process a variety of hundreds of ingredients to different products — a challenging task for the process developer, especially when it comes to laying out pipes and pumps. Read how modern sliding vane pumps meet the challenge offer a clean advantage for soap and detergents manufacturers.

My, how you've grown! Micro- and millireactors bring process intensification in specialty chemistry and pharmacy — One of the current challenges facing the process industry is a change in product portfolio away from commodities to customer-specific specialties. The paradigm shift in process technology production from the batch principle to the continuous flow process based on micro- and millireactors offers great advantages in many cases and is now showing initial success on an industrial scale.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals has broken ground on a project to expand production capacity and upgrade its organic peroxides facility in Mahad, India.