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Inter Pipeline will receive $408 million (€347 million) under the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Programme (APIP).
The grant has been awarded in support of Inter Pipeline’s Heartland petrochemical complex - an integrated propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene production facility, which will be operational early next year.
“The APIP grant recognises the significant contribution…
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Italy and Autogas, the name given to liquid petroleum gas (LPG) that is used as a motor fuel, have a relationship that dates back to the 1950s when the country became one of the first in Europe to introduce the fuel.
Since then, the two have been good for each other, with Autogas growing into the world’s most commonly used alternative fuel, and Italy ranking as the second-largest Autogas…
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KROHNE has introduced its AF-E 400 ultra-compact electromagnetic flowmeter for utilities and industrial automation applications.
The new flowmeter is designed to fit in applications with little installation space available, for example in cooling lines of welding equipment, bending machines and robots, or on chemical dosing skids.
The AF-E 400 matches the requirements of application areas in…
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Fulcrum has been awarded a new £4.9 million (€5.8 million) multi-utility infrastructure contract by a large investor developer.
A part of the contract, the group will design and install new water and gas infrastructure to energise and power the new development in the West Midlands.
The multi-utility infrastructure will be delivered by Fulcrum over 14 months and will serve the first phase of…
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A giant Victorian sewer in East London is being upgraded as Thames Water continues its investment in infrastructure across the capital.
The work is being carried out at the Northern Outfall Sewer and a temporary 7.5-ton weight restriction is being placed to keep the engineers safe as they work below ground.
The sewer comprises eight huge pipes, each around 1.6 metres high and 2.4 metres wide.…
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Two ABEL pumps have been commissioned for work specialising in recycling and soil reclamation in France.
The HMD-G-80-1000 pumps were selected by the customer in Normandy. The pump serves as a filter press feed and operates at a maximum flow rate of 80 m3/h – 12 bar.
The devices are equipped with ABEL’s Smart Pump Assistant monitoring system.
Due to remote access, it delivers complete…
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Bedford Pumps has provided two of their fish friendly pumps to a plant in Runcorn to aid their chemical processes.
INOVYN ChlorVinyls, part of INEOS, is Europe’s leading producer of vinyls and manufactures in eight countries across Europe.
Their Runcorn site which focuses on the production of chlorine, caustic soda and chlorinated derivatives, produces chemicals for a wide variety of…
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The Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco announced a 288% increase in net income from the same quarter of last year to $25.5 billion (€21 billion) and declaring a dividend of $18.8 billion (€16 billion).
The company’s net income for the first half of the year was $47.2 billion (€40 billion), representing a 103% increase over the same period in 2020.
The results were primarily driven by…
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BASF and SINOPEC are to expand their Verbund site which will include several new downstream chemical plants.
The partners will expand the production capacities of propionic acid, propionic aldehyde, ethyleneamines, ethanolamines and purified ethylene oxide, and build a new tert-butyl acrylate plant.
The tert-butyl acrylate plant will be an extension to the downstream using acrylic acid and…
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Northumbrian Water Group – which includes Essex & Suffolk Water – has joined the world’s largest alliance on climate change after being approved by the United Nations to become part of its Race To Zero campaign.
The news comes as the company launches its Emission Possible plan for achieving Net Zero carbon by 2027 – 23 years ahead of the campaign target and that of the UK…
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Atlas Copco has acquired CPC Pumps International Inc.
The Sweden-based company specialises in the design, manufacturing, and servicing of custom-engineered, mission-critical centrifugal pumps.
CPC Pumps has 110 employees and is based in Burlington in Ontario, Canada, with North America as their main market.
“CPC Pumps is a very good fit because both its technology and market presence…
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A total of 150 intelligent electric actuators on Rotork’s Pakscan control network have been ordered by a Spanish processing plant.
Some of Rotork’s IQ range of intelligent electric actuators have already been installed at the Quimica Puente Mayorga chemical processing plant in Cádiz.
The remainder are to be installed in the coming months.
The plant is owned by CEPSA, a Spanish…
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Chemicals company Brenntag has acquired all operating assets and business of Matrix Chemical.
The company is a solvents distributor and the largest distributor of acetone in North America with sales of around $200 million (€168 million) a year.
Steven Terwindt, member of the management board of Brenntag and COO Brenntag Essentials, said: “With the acquisition of Matrix we create a highly…
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SSE has agreed to sell its entire 33.3% stake in its gas supply pipeline network operator Scotia Gas Networks Ltd (SGN) for £1.2 billion (€1.4 billion).
It will be sold to a consortium comprising the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners.
SSE initially acquired a 50% equity share in SGN in 2005 for a total of £505 million (€593 million),…
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KSB is donating domestic water supply systems and grey water pumps worth €50,000 to flooded areas in Germany.
In an effort to help those people hit by recent flooding in Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria the firm is providing 100 Multi Eco-Pro systems for domestic drinking water supplies.
In addition, the Frankenthal branch of the Germany’s Federal Agency for…
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Emerson has launched its new Clarkson KS1 Knife Gate Valve designed to help oil sands companies achieve greater productivity in challenging slurry processes.
The new knife gate valve features a patented gate edge seal design that creates a continuous seal around the gate, together with a precision-moulded elastomer seat.
This heavy-duty seat increases the contact area and resilient sealing…
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HollyFrontier and Holly Energy Partners (HEP) has acquired Sinclair Oil Corporation and Sinclair Transportation Company in the US.
Under the terms of the HEP transaction, Holly will acquire Sinclair’s integrated crude and refined products pipelines and terminal assets, including approximately 1,200 miles of pipelines, eight product terminals and two crude terminals with 4.5 MMbbl of operated…
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The British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) has continued to expand its numbers with another three companies signing up.
Devon-based Rauschert, an independent pioneer of innovative industrial solutions in the technical ceramics and plastics market for more than 120 years, has recently joined.
For the pump industry, Rauschert offers a large standard range as well as customised pump…
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