Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it received an LOI (Letter Of Intent) for a $ 1.07 billion contract from Sarawak Petchem Sdn Bhd (Sarawak Petchem) for the construction of a methanol plant in Sarawak, Malaysia. Samsung Engineering…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil) and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) have announced that they achieved their first-ever demo-scale production of bio-based monoethylene glycol (MEG). As a result of the collaboration between the two companies, the MOSAIK technology development has been progressing…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has reached an agreement with Latour Capital to sell its technical-grade barium and strontium business in Germany, Spain and Mexico as well as its sodium percarbonate business in Germany. Solvay’s barium and strontium business includes a joint venture…
Ineos (London) announced that INEOS Olefins and Polymers USA that it has agreed to principle terms with Sasol Chemicals North America LLC to acquire its 50% membership interest in Gemini HDPE LLC (Gemini) for $404 million. Gemini is a toll-manufacturer…
Sinopec (Beijing, China) has established strategic cooperation with three top institutions in Beijing, China, to take lead in a joint research on the energy and chemical industry's carbon emissions peak and carbon neutrality. Sinopec invited thought leaders and experts in…
Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) has developed a production concept to produce methanol from a large variety of recovered end-of-life streams and hydrogen from electrolysis. Project AIR will build a first-of-a-kind, large scale, commercial Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) unit to…
Arkema SA (Colombes, France) has started up its 50% capacity increase of Kynar fluoropolymer for the lithium-ion battery business at its Changshu plant in China in December 2020, with the first commercial supplies for January 2021. Driven by strong growth…
Vale (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) inaugurated the Pico Block plant, the first pilot plant for civil construction products made from tailings from mining activities. The plant, which has been set up at the Pico mine, in the city of Itabirito,…
Hyundai Motor Co. and INEOS (London) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore new opportunities to accelerate the global hydrogen economy. Hyundai and INEOS will jointly investigate opportunities for the production and supply of hydrogen, as…
Koch Fertilizer announced that it anticipates investing nearly $140 million at its Fort Dodge, Iowa plant to revamp existing production processes, which is expected to increase yearly ammonia production capacity by 85,000 tons. The investment also will further improve reliability…