Keyword: Catalysis & Catalysts

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BASF Breaks Ground for China Catalyst Plant

25.06.2015 - BASF has broken ground at its Shanghai Chemical Industry Park site for the German group’s first process catalysts manufacturing facility in Asia-Pacific. The new facility, set to...

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Umicore and Shaanxi Rock to Jointly Supply China

08.06.2015 - Belgium’s Umicore Precious Metals Chemistry and China’s Shaanxi Rock, both catalyst manufacturers, have begun a cooperation to jointly supply the pharmaceutical, fine and specialty...

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Nippon Shokubai to Upgrade Antwerp Acrylics Output

27.05.2015 - Japanese catalyst and superabsorbent polymer producer Nippon Shokubai has earmarked €350 million for the expansion of its production facilities for its super absorbers and...

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Grace-Chevron JV to Build New Catalyst Plant in Louisiana

21.05.2015 - Advanced Refining Technologies (ART), the catalyst joint venture of chemical producers W.R. Grace and Chevron Products Company, has announced plans to spend around $135 million on...

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Dow Completes Buyout of ExxonMobil’s Univation Stake

11.05.2015 - Dow Chemical has acquired ExxonMobil Chemical's share of US technology licensor Univation Technologies for an undisclosed sum. The deal was announced in October 2014. Previously a...

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Honeywell Opens Chinese Dehydrogenation Catalyst Plant

30.04.2015 - Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies division has opened a new plant at Zhangjiagang City in China's Jiangsu Province to produce state-of the-art catalysts used in...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

HGM Concept for Propane Dehydrogenation Unit

10.04.2015 - Clariant's Heat Generating Material (HGM) for the Catofin process demonstrated excellent performance at the propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant of Ningbo Haiyue New Material Co. in...

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Haldor Topsoe and Ferrostaal to Form Joint Venture

27.03.2015 - Danish catalysis and process technology company, Haldor Topose, and German industrial project developer, Ferrostaal, have agreed to form a joint venture. The partners will hold...