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Arkema to construct new organic peroxide facility, doubling production capacity in China

Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has announced the construction of a new organic peroxide plant on its Changshu site in China. This investment will help double the site’s production capacity. By doubling its production capacity in China, Arkema will continue to…

ExxonMobil celebrates capacity-doubling expansion at Singapore chemical plant

ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) reinforced its longterm supply commitment to the fast-growing Asia-Pacific market during an event celebrating the expansion of its Singapore chemical production facility.  ExxonMobil’s expansion project doubled the size of its finished product capacity in Singapore,…

Lanxess membrane technology goes online at German power plant

Fouling-resistant membrane technology from Lanxess (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is being used at the Dammweg thermal power station in Chemnitz, Germany. This is the first large-scale application of the technology in Europe. A set of 60 Lewabrane RO B400 FR filter…

Rosneft, Pirelli and Oil Techno to collaborate on synthetic rubber JV in Armenia

Rosneft, LLC (Moscow, Russia; www.rosneft.com), Pirelli Tyre Russia and Oil Techno have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with regard to establishing a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) production joint venture (JV) in Armenia. The synthetic rubber JV will focus especially on…

Axiall selects Louisiana as site for proposed ethylene cracker

Axiall Corp. (Atlanta, Ga.; www.axiall.com) today announced that the company has selected the state of Louisiana as the location of a possible ethylene cracker to be built in conjunction with a related derivatives plant. Axiall proposes to construct the facility…

Jacobs awarded contract for U.S. fertilizer plant

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has announced that it was awarded a contract by Midwest Fertilizer to provide program management services for a nitrogen-based fertilizer plant in Posey County, Ind. Officials did not disclose the contract value, but estimate…

Braskem announces acquisition of Solvay Indupa

Braskem S.A. (Sao Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) has announced the execution of an agreement with Grupo Solvay for the acquisition of 70.59% of the total and voting capital of Solvay Indupa S.A.I.C. The transaction price is $290 million. The consummation of…

Sibur expands production capacity for butyl rubber

Tolyattikauchuk, a subsidiary of Sibur (Moscow; www.sibur.com), has commissioned a third butyl rubber separation line, expanding its production capacity from 48,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) to 53,000 m.t./yr. The new line is part of an investment project to upgrade…

PolyOne opens new polymers facility in Turkey

PolyOne Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio; www.polyone.com), a provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, has begun production in a new facility in Turkey. The operations feature enhanced capabilities with an expanding portfolio of specialty polymer formulations. The facility is…

BASF to build new plastics compounding plant in Korea

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid (polyamide) and Ultradur (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant is expected to begin construction by first half of 2014…