Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) has announced plans to increase the Tritan copolyester capacity at its Kingsport, Tenn. facility. Through a series of capital projects, the company plans to expand its capacity from 60,000 metric tons (m.t.) to 76,000…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a project management and consultancy (PMC) services contract by the Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Limited Liability Company for…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Michigan; www.dow.com) to provide detailed engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM)…
Georgia Pacific’s (Atlanta, Ga.; www.gp.com) GP Harmon Recycling (www.gpharmon.com) has announced the asset acquisition of The Highlands Group, Inc.’s plastics recycling facility located in Elizabethton, Tenn. The acquisition marks GP Harmon Recycling’s official entrance into plastics recycling processing. GP…
Kaneka Corporation (Osaka, Japan; www.kaneka.com) is increasing its production capacity of chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) resin at wholly owned subsidiary Kaneka North America LLC, located in Texas, to 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), an increase of approximately 20,000 m.t./yr.…
Siemens Metals Technologies (Linz, Austria; www.siemens.com/metals) has received an order from the Metinvest Group to carry out detailed engineering work on a new sinter plant for PJSC "Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works" (EMZ), a Ukrainian steel producer. The sinter plant…
KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA for one of the largest grassroots high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plants to be built in the Americas. The…
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Tokyo, Japan; www.yokogawa.com) announces that its subsidiary, Yokogawa United Kingdom Ltd., has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by SSE Hornsea Ltd for the upgrade of one of the U.K.'s largest onshore underground gas storage facilities, located…
Sasol (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) and Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA (Ineos) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the intent to form a joint venture to manufacture high-density polyethylene (HDPE). The envisaged plant will…
Styron Europe GmbH (Horgen, Switzerland; www.styron.com) and Ravago S.A. announced jointly today that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Styron’s Expandable Polystyrene (EPS) business will be sold to RP Compounds, a subsidiary of Ravago S.A., for an undisclosed…