Tag: Petrochemical

Top tensile strength

Panduit (London, UK) has produced a new stainless steel cable tie design that is claimed to have the world's highest rated ratio of loop tensile strength to tie width.

Enhanced locking head

PANDUIT™ Ltd has launched a new stainless steel tie design.

Sabic to build second EG plant

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation will construct a new Ethylene Glycol (EG) plant at Jubail United Petrochemical Company.

Manifolds in exotic materials

Parker Instrumentation has launched Pro-Bloc, a range of one-piece double-block-and-bleed manifolds designed to reduce the size and weight of process monitoring instrumentation installations.

Arc Energy revamps work stations

Arc Energy Resources, a specialist in corrosion and wear resistant weld overlay cladding for the oil & gas, petrochemical and process industries, is completing a comprehensive refit of the work stations at its Gloucestershire factory.

ERG Raffinerie Mediterranee SRL

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) has announced that ERG Raffinerie Mediterranee SRL has selected EMRE's GO-fining(1) technology to hydrotreat the feed to their Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC).

Electric vibrators for chemical industry

At Achema 2003 Italvibras G. Silingardi SpA will present its new MVSS series stainless steel electric vibrator ranges and the MICRO series, together with increased safety vibrators and flanged vibrators.

Venezuela and Brazil to sign pact

The respective presidents of Venezuela and Brazil, Hugo Chavez and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will sign a number of energy sector agreements later this week.

Kårstø plant expansion

Statoil ASA has secured a 10-year sales contract to supply ethane to Borealis AS and Norsk Hydro AS.

Chinese polypropylene (4/4)

Tecnimont (Italy) has won contracts to build three polypropylene plants.