Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) has announced its continues progress on a planned 400,000-ton adiponitrile (ADN) plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP). This $1.2 billion USD (8.4 billion RMB) investment will help meet the growing demand for nylon 6,6…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa; www.airproducts.com) announced that Air Products Qudra, a joint venture (JV) between Air Products and Qudra Energy, in collaboration with the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, held a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the start of…
Collaboration partners Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) and ENGIE have received $995,000 in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) towards their feasibility study, which is examining the potential to make renewable hydrogen technology work in industrial-scale facilities.…
Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG (Ismaning, Germany; www.vinnolit.com/) has successfully commissioned its plant expansion for the production of paste PVC at its Burghausen, Germany site using its leading microsuspension technology. "In Burghausen, we are now additionally producing with the microsuspension…
OCI Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.oci.co.kr) and POSCO Chemical (Pohang-si, South, Korea; www.posco.com) signed a joint agreement to produce electronic-grade and industrial hydrogen peroxide using coke oven gas (COG), a byproduct of steelmaking processes The joint venture (JV) is…
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Italy-based ASEM, S.p.A., a leading provider of digital automation technologies. ASEM provides a complete range of Industrial PCs (IPCs), Human-Machine Interface (HMI) hardware and software, remote…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was recently awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for a new adiponitrile (ADN) plant in Shanghai, China which will have a production capacity of 400,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) and Mitsubishi Materials Corp., Ltd. (www.mmc.co.jp) announced that, based on a resolution of the companies’ respective Board of Directors meetings, they have signed aletter of intent to start specific discussions and study on the…
Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertechnologies.com) will support a major expansion of a mill in Brazil by providing a turnkey chloride removal system designed to optimize the processing of wood-derived pulp used in the making of cellulose fibers. The pulping production uses…
Versalis (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.versalis.eni.com) has launched a new project focused on the development of a new technology to chemically recycle plastic waste. Versalis signed a joint development agreement with Italian engineering company, Servizi di Ricerche e Sviluppo (S.R.S.),…