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Economic Indicators
Business neWs
Plant Watch
Neste Jacobs to expand enzyme
production plant in Finland
April 5, 2013 - Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo,
Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) has signed
a contract to expand an enzyme plant operated
by Roal Oy (Rajamäki, Finland; www.
roal.fi). Enzymes produced at the Rajamäki
plant are used to make foodstuffs, clothing,
animal feed, pulp and paper. The contract,
which is worth several million euros, started
in April and will be executed in phases, finishing
in June 2016.
ThyssenKrupp to build a second
cement plant in Indonesia
March 27, 2013 - ThyssenKrupp Polysius
(Beckum, Germany; www.thyssenkruppresource-technologies.com)
has won a
contract from PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk.,
Jakarta, to build a second 1.7-million ton/yr
cement plant near the town of Tuban on the
northern coast of Java. The contract is worth
around $250 million and the plant is scheduled
to start production in 2015. The Tuban 1
plant, also being built by ThyssenKrupp
Polysius, is due to start up in June.
UOP propylene technology chosen
for plants in Canada and China
March 26, 2013 - UOP LLC (Des Plaines,
Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company,
says that its UOP C3 Oleflex propane dehydrogenation
(PDH) technology has been
selected by Williams (Tulsa, Okla.) for a plant
in Alberta, Canada. The 1-billion lb/yr facility
will convert propane recovered from oil
sands offgas into polymer-grade propylene.
This is Canada's first PDH facility and the sixth
successive win for Honeywell's UOP Oleflex
technology in North America.
Uhde Inventa-Fischer commissions
polyamide 6 plant in Belarus
March 25, 2013 - Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems,
Switzerland; www.uhde-inventafischer.com)
and JSC Grodno Azot PTC
Khimvolokno (Belarus) have successfully
commissioned a 91,000-metric tons (m.t. )/
yr polyamide 6 plant in Grodno, Western
Belarus.
Toyo wins EVOH plant contract in Texas
and refinery modernization in Tatarstan
March 18, 2013 - Toyo Engineering Corp.
(Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp)
has won a contract to construct a 15,000ton/yr
ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer
(EVOH) plant in La Porte, Houston, for Nippon
Synthetic Chemical Industry Co. Construction
is scheduled to begin this summer
and to be completed at the end of 2014. The
project will add a third production line to
Nippon Synthetic's two existing lines.
The previous week, Toyo Engineering
Corp. was awarded a contract with TAIFNK
(Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan,
Russian Federation) to provide detailed
engineering and procurement for the modernization
of an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk.
TAIF-NK belongs to TAIF PSC Group (Republic
of Tatarstan, Russian Federation), and is one
of the largest petroleum refineries in Russia.
The project, which is due to be completed in
2016, will see the world's first use of the VCC
(Veba Combi Cracker) process from KBR
(Houston; www.kbr.com) on a Heavy Residue
Conversion Complex (HRCC).
Jacobs awarded contract for sulfuric
acid regeneration plant
March 12, 2013 - Jacobs Engineering
Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.
com) was awarded a contract by Jiangsu
Sailboat Petrochemical Co. for the design
of a sulfuric acid regeneration plant in Lianyungang,
Jiangsu, People's Republic of
China. The plant will treat spent acid from a
new methyl methacrylate (MMA) and acrylonitrile
(AN) production facility.
Ineos and Sinopec form JV agreement
for chemical complex in Nanjing
March 11, 2013 - Ineos Phenol (Rolle,
Switzerland; www.ineosphenol.com) and
Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co. (Sinopec
YPC) have formed a joint venture (JV)
to build and operate a 1.2-million m.t./yr
cumene, phenol and acetone complex at
Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park in Jiangsu
Province, China. Capacity will be at least
400,000 m.t./yr of phenol, 250,000 m.t./yr
of acetone and 550,000 m.t./yr of cumene,
making it the largest plant of its kind in China.
Startup is planned for the end of 2015.
Pöyry awarded EPCM assignment in a
pulp mill project in Brazil
March 11, 2013 - Pöyry Oyj. (Helsinki,
Finland; www.poyry.com) has won an engineering,
procurement and construction
management (EPCM) contract from CMPC
Celulose Riograndense for the expansion
of the company's Guaiba pulp mill in Rio
Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Under the Balance
of Plant (BOP) assignment, Pöyry will
work on integrating the different processes
of the mill. Startup of the new 1.3-million
m.t./yr mill is planned for early 2015.
Mergers and acquisitions
CB&I acquire Phillips gasification
technology and signs Korean PDH deal
March 21, 2013 - CB&I (The Woodlands,
Tex.; www.cbi.com) has agreed to acquire
the E-Gas gasification business from Phillips
66. E-Gas technology is a commercially
proven way to convert coal or petroleum
coke into synthesis gas. The previous week,
CB&I announced a contract from SK Gas
for the license and engineering design of a
propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit to be
built in Ulsan, Korea, for startup in 2016. The
600,000-m.t. /yr plant will use Catofin technology
from Lummus.
BASF to start up new FCC catalysts testing
and research laboratory in Heidelberg
March 13, 2013 - BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.;
www.basf.com) says it will open a new multimillion
euro fluid catalytic cracking (FCC)
catalysts testing and research laboratory at
the hte AG (www.hte-company.com) facility
in Heidelberg, Germany. hte is a wholly
owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen,
Germany) and provider of services to enhance
productivity in research and development.
The new BASF laboratory will begin
operating in the first half of 2014.
Davy Process Technology and SEKAB
E-Technology form strategic partnership
March 13, 2013 - Davy Process Technology
Ltd. (Davy; London, U.K.; www.davyprotech.
com), a Johnson Matthey company, and
SEKAB (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.
sekab.com), a leader in ethanol-based
chemicals and biofuels, announced that
they will collaborate to develop and market
CelluTech, SEKAB's lignocellulosic-based
biorefinery technology.
AkzoNobel and Solvay establish a
partnership on renewable solvents
March 12, 2013 - Solvay S.A. (Brussels,
Belgium; www.solvay.com) has agreed
to supply bio-based chemicals for use in
paints and coatings made by AkzoNobel
(Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com).
The agreement covers the manufacture
of biobutanol and bio-acetone
and their derivatives, and the Solvay Coatis
Augeo family of solvents, in volumes of up to
10,000 ton/yr by 2017.
Charles Butcher
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