The new plant will be situated at the Vadinar Refinery in Gujarat, India and is expected to make use of 450 KTA of propylene feedstock. With Grace’s new technology, Nayara Energy aims to produce phthalate-free homopolymer products for the Indian market and use the most advanced PP process and catalysts technology for its project.

The contracts are for the MJ1 field located in deep water offshore India in the Krishna Godavari basin and include the fabrication and installation of flexible risers, rigid and flexible flowlines and umbilicals.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Saudi Aramco have mutually called off the 15-billion-dollar deal under which Saudi Aramco would acquire a 20% stake in the company’s oil-chemicals (O2C) business. The move has been undertaken in the background of RIL’s evolving nature of the business i.e. the company unveiled plans for its new energy & materials businesses under which the firm intends to develop the Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India, which is a major part of the its oil-to-chemicals (O2C) assets. Now, RIL and Saudi Aramco will re-evaluate the proposed investment in the O2C business.

With an aim to increase its production capacity as well as to provide faster and more sustainable customer solutions, Sika has launched a new mortar production facility in China to meet the growing demands of the construction industry in the Asian nation.

Belgian specialty chemicals firm Solvay plans to expand its plant in Panoli, Gujarat state in India. Additional 25 % production capacities for polymer resins shall help to cater a strong demand regional demand for high performance polymers, the company states.

The Engineering Division within The Linde Group was showcasing a new virtual reality application for the first time at Gastech 2017 in Tokyo.

Flowability, dustlessness and easy dosing — these are some of the plus points of granulates produced by fluidized or spouted bed technology. The product design can be specifically influenced by process engineering.

Under a MOU signed between Technip Energies and Svante, both the companies will work together to further develop Svante’s solid sorbent carbon capture technology and also explore opportunities for developing industrial scale carbon capture projects in Europe, Middle-East and Africa and Russian Federation markets where the technology would be used.

The DMS process is a special flotation process in diamond ore processing. Dust and dirt are, among other things, the major factors that adversely affect level measurement in the flotation tank. Read the exciting example of diamond ore processing and find out what advantages one operator was able to gain by switching to radar level measurement at 80 GHz.

Under the terms of the deal, BP will combine its Brazilian biofuels and biopower businesses with Bunge. The move will enable the 50:50 JV to build a world-scale company which is capable of producing highly efficient sugarcane ethanol in Brazil.