British engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler announces the award of a contract by Yuhuang Chemical (YCI), a US-based subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company (SYCC), for its first major project in the US, a 1.7 million tons per year world-scale methanol facility on the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals, DSM, Google and Philips have started receiving power from the Bouwdokken wind farm in the Netherlands. The companies established an energy purchasing consortium that enabled construction of two Dutch wind farm projects.

And the winners are: Borealis has announced the winners of its 2011 Borealis Student Innovation Awards. On January 19, 2012 Alfred Stern, Borealis Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology, presented Rana Qudaih and Dr. Said Mehdiabadi with their awards, certificates and monetary prizes at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria.

Trinseo marked the opening of its new pilot plant and solution-styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany. The production expansion adds additional 50 KT of S-SBR capacity to the site and increases the company’s global S-SBR production by 33 %.

For the expansion of Bhushan Steel’s steel plant at Meramandali, india, Larsen and Toubro carried out the design, engineering, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the raw material handling system that included 43 kilometres of belt conveyors.

Graphene is making the transition from research journals to commercial applications. This article discusses a new class of nano-material and their commercialization in wide ranging applications.

Exxon Mobil announced a growth strategy to more than double earnings and cash flow from operations by 2025 at today’s oil prices. Growth plans include steps to increase earnings by more than 100 % — to $ 31 billion by 2025 at 2017 prices — from last year’s adjusted profit of $ 15 billion, which excluded the impact of US tax reform and impairments.

CAC has been awarded a contract by Neolyse Ibbenbüren – a production joint venture of Evonik and Akzo Nobel – for the performance of EPCM services as general contractor for a new membrane electrolysis to be constructed at the Akzo Nobel site in Ibbenbüren, Germany.

Suez, through its subsidiary Seramm, started the construction of a biomethane production and injection plant, produced from wastewater treatment process.

Learn how a special type of pumping technology, positive displacement (PD) solid-body plastic air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps, possesses the design and construction features that are necessary to guarantee full containment of dangerous chemicals, while also offering working characteristics that enable the highest level of operational efficiency to be achieved.