ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) announced the successful startup of its Beaumont refinery expansion project, which adds 250,000 barrels per day (bbl.d) of capacity to one of the largest refining and petrochemical complexes along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Supported by the company’s…
Corteva Inc., Bunge and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. announced a commercial collaboration to introduce proprietary winter canola hybrids that produce plant-based oil with a lower carbon profile. The goal is to increase the availability of vegetable oil feedstocks primarily for the…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has announced plans to expand its polymer dispersions production capacity by adding a second production line at its site in the Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial Park in Guangdong, China. The new line is scheduled to start…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Mepol Group announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for LyondellBasell to acquire Mepol Group, a manufacturer of recycled, high-performing technical compounds located in Italy and Poland, consisting of Mepol S.r.l. and its…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that Butadiene LLP has selected its iC4 CATOFIN, CATADIENE, CDMtbe technologies and BASF's butadiene extraction technology for units at Butadiene LLP's new petrochemical plant in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. "We are grateful to be selected and provide multiple technologies and…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Grace; Columbia, Md.) and Sohar University inaugurated a jointly operated DCR Pilot Plant at the University in Oman. "It's very exciting to move this 15-year partnership between Grace, Sohar University, and OQ to the next…
GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) is equipping two additional production lines of the energy storage and specialty chemicals group Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) for the production of lithium hydroxide. Lithium hydroxide is used as a starting material for the production of…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is expanding its presence in the global market for pharmaceutical packaging by establishing a joint venture with Inden Pharma, a well-known Spanish pharmaceutical packaging company. The copmanies are starting a long-term partnership for the certified production…
Shell Catalysts & Technologies, together with Technip Energies and Zachry Group, has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a carbon capture unit project at Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center in Texas, USA. The project will be designed to…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is expanding its capacity to produce MetAMINO (DL-methionine) on Jurong Island, Singapore, by 40,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) to around 340,000 m.t./yr. The high double-digit million euro investment in this further technological development is…