Keyword: Coal

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Indonesia Plans Coal-based Chemicals Complex

22.12.2017 - Three Indonesian firms – Pertamina, Chandra Asri and Pupuk Indonesia – have signed an agreement in principle with local mining group Bukit Asam to look at the feasibility of...

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Air Products in China Syngas Project

14.09.2017 - US industrial gases group Air Products has signed an agreement with Lu’An Clean Energy, part of Chinese coal mining conglomerate Lu’An Mining, to form a $1.3 billion joint venture...

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Linde Commissions six ASUs in China

05.01.2017 - Industrial gases and engineering group Linde has commissioned six major air separation units (ASUs), each with a capacity of around 100,000 standard cubic metres (cbm) of gaseous...

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SABIC in China Coal-to-Chemicals Venture

05.09.2016 - SABIC has agreed a set of principles with Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group (SNCG) and the government of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China to jointly develop a...

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AVA-CO2 Starts Phosphorus Recovery Pilot Plant

13.07.2016 - Swiss biotech company AVA-CO2 has commissioned a pilot plant in Karlsruhe, Germany, to demonstrate its cleanphos process that recovers phosphorus from sewage sludge. First results...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

BDO: The Pacemaker Stumbles

19.11.2015 - 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) is an important chemical intermediate product and raw material for plastics, solvents and synthetic fibers. The alcohol’s production capacities have been...

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Energy in 2014: A Year of Change

27.07.2015 - (CHEManager International 7-8/2015) World consumption 2014 was a remarkable year in the world of energy. The eerie calm that had characterized energy markets in the few years prior...

Markets & Companies

Low Oil Prices Pose Challenges for European Chemical Industry

24.03.2015 - The sharp drop in oil prices in the second half of last year is causing some dilemmas not only for individual chemical producers in Europe, particularly those making petrochemicals...