Rapidly increasing shale gas supplies and low prices create new opportunities for high value applications

11-02-2013

Unitel Technologies, Inc. announced that the company is currently involved in several projects for converting natural gas into liquid fuels and chemicals. This is partly due to the unprecedented boom in the shale gas sector. “Because much of the shale gas in North America is being extracted ...

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25-09-2012

IChemE and the South African Institution of Chemical Engineering (SAIChE) have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding that paves the way for the creation of a SAIChE-IChemE (South Africa) Branch.The MOU was signed by IChemE president Russell Scott and SAIChE president Ralph Grob. It follows a ...

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29-08-2012

Ralph Grob, chief process engineer at Sasol Technology and Chartered Chemical Engineer, has been elected to the post of president at the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers (SAIChE).Grob, who was appointed president at SAIChE’s Annual General Meeting in Johannesburg, takes over ...

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04-07-2012

PolyOne Corporation announced plans to open a new facility in South Africa. Located in the Montague Gardens industrial precinct in Cape Town, the facility will serve customers throughout Africa. Leveraging newly acquired ColorMatrix technology, PolyOne will initially supply liquid ...

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New CO2 concentration unit supports future growth of Sodium Dichromate production

27-02-2012

German specialties chemicals group LANXESS is investing EUR 40 million to build a CO2 concentration unit at its South African site in Newcastle. At this site, the group operates a highly modern plant, that mainly produces Sodium Dichromate which is further processed into chrome tanning ...

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New plant will be operational in 2012

19-05-2011

BASF will invest in a dispersions plant in Durban, South Africa. The new plant will produce acrylic dispersions mainly for the coatings and construction industry. The facility will benefit from local availability of raw materials and proximity to key customers who serve South Africa’s and Sub ...

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28-02-2011

New evidence bolsters the notion that deep saline groundwaters in South Africa's Witwatersrand Basin may have remained isolated for many thousands, perhaps even millions, of years. The study found the noble gas neon dissolved in water in three-kilometre deep crevices. The unusual neon ...

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20-05-2010

Yara International ASA has agreed to sell its retail marketing activity in South Africa at book value. Yara has agreed to sell it fully owned fertilizer retail activity in South Africa to Farmsecure and its 50% ownership in the South African retail company Sidi Parani to its partner, the GWK ...

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23-04-2010

The Sasol Limited board has recently approved the construction of a R1.9 billion ethylene purification unit at its Sasol Polymers plant in Sasolburg. The plant is expected to go on stream in the second half of 2013 and will be ramped up to full capacity by 2015. The unit will enable the ...

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15-12-2009

ABB has won an order worth $54 million from the South African utility, Eskom, to provide electrical and automation solutions that will improve reliability and energy efficiency at three of its largest power plants. As the turnkey contractor, ABB is responsible for the design, installation ...

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