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Verenium to work with Tate & Lyle on novel food ingredients
FOCUS announced on 15 Dec 2011. The order is for a full scale FT unit (with a nominal capacity of over 25 barrels/d), to be delivered within 2 months. It will be installed and operated at one of the company’s existing facilities during 1H 2012. The company intends to aggressively pursue production of synthetic oil through medium scale modular facilities located at their sites internationally. The operation of this initial FT unit will provide detailed engineering parameters for the first such synthetic fuels plant, the design of which is due to begin in 1H 2012. This is the Group’s fourth sale of FT reactors and catalyst, following separate orders for units by SGC Energia, SGPS SA in Dec 2010 and Apr 2011, and by a Fortune 500 company in Jul 2011. Press release from: Oxford Catalysts, 115E-H Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4RZ, UK, tel: +44 (0)1235 841 70, fax: +44 (0)1235 841 701, email: [email protected], website: http://www.oxfordcatalysts.com (9 Jan 2012)
Rhodia signs rare earth agreement with Chinese group Rhodia Rare Earth Systems has signed a letter of intent with China Rare Metals and Rare Earth (a subsidiary of Chinalco) for a partnership focused on rare earth supply and the development of technology and markets. The Chinalco subsidiary has an R&D centre that is part of Grirem Advanced Materials, a Chinese site dedicated to rare earth production and research. Rhodia Rare Earth has six sites worldwide. It had a 2010 turnover of €226 M. The firm supplies the automotive catalyst, luminescents, and polishing sectors. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 19 Dec 2011, (575), 6 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie) (in French) © ETAI Information 2011
SDCmaterials announces field trials for emission control catalysts SDCmaterials Inc has announced the commencement of field trials for their novel Nano-Nano-micron (NNm) emission control catalyst product. As part of this final phase of preproduction testing, the company’s NNm product will be deployed as the active catalyst ingredient within a critical exhaust system component utilised on municipal transit buses.
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This project is a joint project between SDCmaterials and a major European exhaust gas after treatment and systems company. PR Newswire, 9 Jan 2012 (Website: http://www.prnewswire.com)
UOP selected by Dow Chemical to provide technology for US petrochemical plant UOP LLC announced on 5 Jan 2012 that it had been selected by the Dow Chemical Co to provide technology to produce propylene at a Dow production site in Texas, USA. Dow Texas Operations will use UOP C3 Oleflex technology in a new propane dehydrogenation unit to convert shale gas-derived propane to propylene. The plant will produce 750,000 tonne/y of polymer-grade propylene. The unit is scheduled to start up in 2015. It will be the first of its kind in the USA and the largest single-train propane dehydrogenation plant in North America. Press release from: Honeywell International Inc, 101 Columbia Road, Morristown, NJ, USA, tel: +1 973 4552000, fax: +1 973 455 4807, website:http://www.honeywell.com (5 Jan 2012)
UOP selected to provide technology for petrochemicals production in South Korea UOP LLC announced on 10 Jan 2012 that it has been selected by South Korea’s Kumho P&B Chemicals Inc to provide technology to produce key petrochemicals for the manufacture of plastics. UOP’s Q-Max and UOP Phenol process technologies will be integrated at Kumho’s Yeosu, South Korea, plant to produce high-quality phenol. The new units, expected to start up in 2013-2014, will produce 900,000 tonne/y of cumene and 300,000 tonne/y of phenol. UOP will provide engineering design, technology licensing, catalysts, adsorbents, and technical service for the project. The UOP Q-Max process produces cumene through the alkylation of benzene with propylene. The cumene is subsequently converted to phenol, with low feedstock and utility requirements, using the UOP Phenol process. Press release from: Honeywell International Inc, 101 Columbia Road, Morristown, NJ, USA, tel: +1 973 4552000, fax: +1 973 455 4807, website:http://www.honeywell.com (10 Jan 2012)
Verenium launches second enzyme product for oilfield services Verenium Corp has announced the introduction of Vereflow alphaamylase, a unique enzyme for the removal of filter cake in drilling operations. This high performance enzyme effectively removes filter cake that acts as a barrier to hydrocarbon flow on the face of the wellbore, the hole drilled in the creation of a well. Effective over a wide temperature and pH range and with a safer environmental footprint compared to traditional chemicals often used in the process, Vereflow alpha-amylase provides the oilfield services industry with greater operational flexibility. PR Newswire, 5 Jan 2012 (Website: http://www.prnewswire.com)
Verenium secures funding Verenium Corp has secured as much as $16 M in new secured financing and up to $3 M in secured equipment financing to aid the firm’s planned construction of research and bioprocess development laboratories and corporate headquarters in San Diego. Original Source: Ethanol Producer Magazine, Dec 2011 (Website: http://www.ethanolproducer.com) © BBI International 2011
Verenium to work with Tate & Lyle on novel food ingredients Verenium Corp has announced an agreement with Tate & Lyle (T&L) for the use of one of its proprietary enzyme products in the development of novel food ingredients. Under the terms of the agreement, T&L receives a technology licence with exclusivity assurances in the field of development. Verenium receives $1.5 M in near-term milestone payments, revenues from enzyme product sales, and a royalty on T&L’s future sales. PR Newswire, 30 Jan 2012 (Website: http://www.prnewswire.com)
NEW PLANTS Topsoe receives order for two SNOX plants from Petrobras Topsoe has signed an agreement with Petrobras for the supply of critical
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Rhodia signs rare earth agreement with Chinese group Rhodia Rare Earth Systems has signed a letter of intent with China Rare Metals and Rare Earth (a subsidiary of Chinalco) for a partnership focused on rare earth supply and the development of technology and markets. The Chinalco subsidiary has an R&D centre that is part of Grirem Advanced Materials, a Chinese site dedicated to rare earth production and research. Rhodia Rare Earth has six sites worldwide. It had a 2010 turnover of €226 M. The firm supplies the automotive catalyst, luminescents, and polishing sectors. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 19 Dec 2011, (575), 6 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie) (in French) © ETAI Information 2011
SDCmaterials announces field trials for emission control catalysts SDCmaterials Inc has announced the commencement of field trials for their novel Nano-Nano-micron (NNm) emission control catalyst product. As part of this final phase of preproduction testing, the company’s NNm product will be deployed as the active catalyst ingredient within a critical exhaust system component utilised on municipal transit buses.
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This project is a joint project between SDCmaterials and a major European exhaust gas after treatment and systems company. PR Newswire, 9 Jan 2012 (Website: http://www.prnewswire.com)
UOP selected by Dow Chemical to provide technology for US petrochemical plant UOP LLC announced on 5 Jan 2012 that it had been selected by the Dow Chemical Co to provide technology to produce propylene at a Dow production site in Texas, USA. Dow Texas Operations will use UOP C3 Oleflex technology in a new propane dehydrogenation unit to convert shale gas-derived propane to propylene. The plant will produce 750,000 tonne/y of polymer-grade propylene. The unit is scheduled to start up in 2015. It will be the first of its kind in the USA and the largest single-train propane dehydrogenation plant in North America. Press release from: Honeywell International Inc, 101 Columbia Road, Morristown, NJ, USA, tel: +1 973 4552000, fax: +1 973 455 4807, website:http://www.honeywell.com (5 Jan 2012)
UOP selected to provide technology for petrochemicals production in South Korea UOP LLC announced on 10 Jan 2012 that it has been selected by South Korea’s Kumho P&B Chemicals Inc to provide technology to produce key petrochemicals for the manufacture of plastics. UOP’s Q-Max and UOP Phenol process technologies will be integrated at Kumho’s Yeosu, South Korea, plant to produce high-quality phenol. The new units, expected to start up in 2013-2014, will produce 900,000 tonne/y of cumene and 300,000 tonne/y of phenol. UOP will provide engineering design, technology licensing, catalysts, adsorbents, and technical service for the project. The UOP Q-Max process produces cumene through the alkylation of benzene with propylene. The cumene is subsequently converted to phenol, with low feedstock and utility requirements, using the UOP Phenol process. Press release from: Honeywell International Inc, 101 Columbia Road, Morristown, NJ, USA, tel: +1 973 4552000, fax: +1 973 455 4807, website:http://www.honeywell.com (10 Jan 2012)
Verenium launches second enzyme product for oilfield services Verenium Corp has announced the introduction of Vereflow alphaamylase, a unique enzyme for the removal of filter cake in drilling operations. This high performance enzyme effectively removes filter cake that acts as a barrier to hydrocarbon flow on the face of the wellbore, the hole drilled in the creation of a well. Effective over a wide temperature and pH range and with a safer environmental footprint compared to traditional chemicals often used in the process, Vereflow alpha-amylase provides the oilfield services industry with greater operational flexibility. PR Newswire, 5 Jan 2012 (Website: http://www.prnewswire.com)
Verenium secures funding Verenium Corp has secured as much as $16 M in new secured financing and up to $3 M in secured equipment financing to aid the firm’s planned construction of research and bioprocess development laboratories and corporate headquarters in San Diego. Original Source: Ethanol Producer Magazine, Dec 2011 (Website: http://www.ethanolproducer.com) © BBI International 2011
Verenium to work with Tate & Lyle on novel food ingredients Verenium Corp has announced an agreement with Tate & Lyle (T&L) for the use of one of its proprietary enzyme products in the development of novel food ingredients. Under the terms of the agreement, T&L receives a technology licence with exclusivity assurances in the field of development. Verenium receives $1.5 M in near-term milestone payments, revenues from enzyme product sales, and a royalty on T&L’s future sales. PR Newswire, 30 Jan 2012 (Website: http://www.prnewswire.com)
NEW PLANTS Topsoe receives order for two SNOX plants from Petrobras Topsoe has signed an agreement with Petrobras for the supply of critical
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