Kemira Oyj (Helsinki; www.kemira.com) has announced the completion of the company’s new Nanjing production base. The Nanjing plant is located in the Nanjing Chemical Park, Jiangsu Province. Kemira’s already completed and future investments into the plant will amount to approximately$…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston; www.westlake.com) to provide detailed engineering and procurement services to expand the recovery section of Westlake’s Petro 1 ethylene plant at its complex in Sulphur, Louisiana, USA. Technip’s operating…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has opened its new center for research and development of high-performance materials on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands. The completion of DSM’s largest materials center worldwide is part of the €100-million…
BP plc (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) has announced that it plans to invest over $200 million to upgrade its purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants at Cooper River, South Carolina and Geel, Belgium. The investments will position these assets amongst the most…
Starting in 2015, The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) plans to expand capacity and enhance production technologies and equipment at its four polyethylene (PE) production units located in Bahia Blanca, Argentina: Low-density (LDPE), Slurry, Gas-phase, and Solution. These investments…
Thomas Swan & Co. (Consett, U.K.; www.thomas-swan.co.uk) has announced that they have successfully secured four government grants for graphene-related projects within the program “Realizing the Graphene Revolution” launched by Innovate UK. The lead participants in the program are Sharp Laboratories of…
Wison Engineering Services Co. (Shanghai, China; www.wison.com), one of the leading chemical engineering, procurement and construction management (EPC) service providers in China, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Wison Engineering Ltd., has continued to make headway in proprietary technology…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has announced its participation in a major Dutch partnership working with Enerkem (Montreal, Canada; www.enerkem.com) to explore the use of waste streams as a feedstock for chemical production and the development of waste-to-chemicals facilities. The…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has opened a new facility in Bad Wimpfen, Germany to produce the synthetic building block 4-ethoxy-1,1,1-trifluoro-3-butene-2-one (ETFBO), expanding its range of fluorinated organic intermediates. ETFBO is a building block that boosts the efficiency of active…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Rex.; www.cbi.com) has announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $40 million by Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing LLC. The project scope includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication and field construction of a…