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New plant uses thermal process to recycle petrochemical waste
… process. The company also claims the end products are higher in quality than those produced via other methods. Royco's new plant will reprocess 3,000 tonnes/year of waste. It plans to sell its facilities in domestic and foreign markets, including …
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Sipchem announces EPC for new plant
Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (Sipchem) announced earlier this month that affiliate International Polymers Co. has awarded the engineering design, procurement, and construction work for an ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) plant to G.S. Engineering & Construction Corp., South Korea.
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U.K. HSE reveals new plant safety computer model
The U.K. Health and Safety Executive (HSE), London, announced a new computer model to enable plant operators to improve the effectiveness of warnings to the public in the case of a major incident. The government safety watchdog said the model will allow accurate risk assessment for site and ...
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Borealis reveals new polypropylene process
… process for making polypropylene and will use it in a new plant at Schwechat, Austria. The Borstar PP process is claimed ..... replace two old slurry polypropylene units at the site. The new plant is scheduled to begin production in mid-2000. Borealis …
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Venezuelan refinery outsources new hydrogen plant
… South American hydrogen facility started up at the Amuay refining complex of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (Pdvsa). The new plant , engineered, built, owned, and operated by a joint venture between BOC Gases Inc. and Foster Wheeler Power Systems …
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Statoil to invest in greening Danish refinery
… European sulphur content legislation due to come into force in 2005. According to the Norwegian oil and gas giant, the new plant , expected to be up and running by 2002, will cut the sulphur content of diesel oil by 80%, from 0.005% to just …
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Dow to build Gulf Coast POSM plant
… complexes on the US Gulf Coast. Dow has complexes at Plaquemine, La., and Freeport and La Porte, Tex. Dow says the new plant will its first plant to utilize a new co-product POSM process. The complex is scheduled for completion in mid-2004 …
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Industry can learn from past project failures
The surge of new plant projects built in developing economies during the past 15 years includes both successes and failures. Companies can learn from …
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IRS ruling eases power plant interconnection tax burden
… power generation projects. The IRS ruling exempts from taxation the cost of building transmission lines to connect a new plant to the electric grid. Both investor-owned utilities and independent generators who often don't see eye to eye on …
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Study finds petchem cash margins out of sync with capex decisions
… research confirms no correlation exists between cash margins and decisions of a large chemical producer to invest in a new plant ; specific corporate priorities rather than a "trigger" point mechanism determine the timing. A popular theory, often …
