On June 18, 2019, and following the scheduled two-year construction period, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) officially commissioned its second complex for the production of MetAmino (DL-methionine) and strategically important precursors in Singapore. “Our methionine complex on Jurong Island,…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) has brought on line its new Pangea III supercomputer, multiplying the Group’s computing power by almost 5 to 31.7 petaflops (equivalent to 170,000 laptops combined) and tripling its storage capacity to 76 petabytes (equivalent to…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) has been awarded a sizeable ($1–50 million) technology contract by Ningbo Union King Polyester Material Limited for the technology license, process design engineering, and operator training services for a large-scale, grassroots 1,600,000 ton/yr p-xylene plant…
Dinnissen Process Technology B.V. (Sevenum, the Netherlands; www.dinnissen.nl) continues to grow. The company’s reputation is growing throughout the world due to its solid, sustainable and, in particular, innovative solutions which repeatedly surprise the market. It all started in 1948, when…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced the strengthening of its leadership in high-performance specialty polymers with the operational launch of a new production line for Arnitel in Emmen, the Netherlands. The capacity will be expanded by 20% and…
Air Liquide China (Shanghai; www.airliquide.com/china) has entered into an agreement to sell to its client Fujian Shenyuan New Materials Co. Ltd, its subsidiary Air Liquide Fuzhou Co. Ltd. which owns and operates the integrated gas complex in Fujian (Southeast China).…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.; www.woodplc.com) has been awarded a new contract by Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries Co. (DRPIC) to provide FEED (front-end engineering design) for a proposed onshore petrochemicals facility at the Special Economic Zone Area Duqm (SEZAD) in…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com) has conducted a running test of the prototype EX ROVR, a plant inspection robot with explosion protection features to limit the danger of the robot itself igniting an explosion or fire from…
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany: www.wacker.com) inaugurated a new production line for silicone elastomers at its Zhangjiagang site in China. With an annual capacity of several thousand metric tons, the facility will help support Wacker’s future growth path in…
INEOS (London, U.K.; www.ineos.com) signs agreement with Saudi Aramco and Total to build its first ever plants in the Middle East. The three world-scale plants will produce the key building blocks for carbon fiber, engineering polymers and synthetic lubricants that…