Orion S.A. (Luxembourg) celebrated the completion of its first greenfield project – a carbon black plant in eastern China that will supply fast-growing demand in Asia. The facility in the city of Huaibei in Anhui province will produce carbon black…
thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology GmBh, a fully owned subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany), has signed a contract with Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) to license a urea granulation unit in Karratha, Western Australia. The project in Karratha is being…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) announced the official opening of a new world-scale ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) facility located in Ningbo, China, together with its joint venture partner SINOPEC. The facility has a nameplate capacity of 600,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr).…
ADM Co. (Chicago) and Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio) announced the opening of their joint venture soybean processing complex, Green Bison Soy Processing, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Green Bison facility in Spiritwood is North Dakota's first dedicated soybean processing…
AGC, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that AGC Wakasa Chemicals Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of AGC that conducts CDMO for synthetic agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, held a ceremony on November 17, 2023 for the completion of a new large-scale production line at its…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has been awarded a licensing and equipment supply contract for a fertilizer plant of PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang (Pusri) in the Palembang District of South Sumatra from WUHUAN ENGINERING CO., LTD. “Wuhuan) in China. TOYO will…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it has made the final investment decision to build the company's first industrial-scale catalytic advanced recycling demonstration plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Using LyondellBasell's proprietary MoReTec technology, this plant will be the…
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Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Prime Polymer, a subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals, are working together to provide more sustainable food packaging solutions for CO-OP, a brand of the Japanese Consumers Co-operative Union (JCCU). In the first…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is building a new plant to produce ultra-high purity colloidal silica at its site in Weston, Michigan, USA which is expected to generate a total capital spending of $7.9 million in 2023 and 2024. The…