As part of the portfolio upgrade announced in September 2018, Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) will continue with the divestment of the Pigments business and has decided to also divest the entire Masterbatches business including both, standard and high value Masterbatches.…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) has acquired Zhejiang Friend Chemical Co. (Friend), the largest Chinese producer of triethyl aluminum (TEAL) – a metal alkyl used in the production of high-volume polymers, such as polypropylene and polyethylene. The acquisition will substantially…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced today that, following a Final Investment Decision from Methanex Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada; www.methanex.com) , approval has been given to begin work on the detailed Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) phase of Methanex's Geismar 3 methanol…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airlqiuide.com) and Shell Chemicals, one of the world’s leading chemicals suppliers, signed renewal contracts for the supply of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Steam and Electricity to Shell’s Scotford facility near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. To support this renewed long-term…
Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) has awarded Veolia (Paris; www.veolia.com) - via its Veolia Middle East subsidiary - the contract for the operation and maintenance of its refinery wastewater treatment plant in Al-Zour in southern Kuwait. A $63 million…
ExxonMobil (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) started production on a new high-performance polyethylene line at its Beaumont, Texas polyethylene plant. The expansion increases plant production capacity by 65% or 650,000 tons per year, bringing site capacity to nearly 1.7 million tons per…
Honeywell announced that Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) has awarded reconfiguration of refining and petrochemicals sections of its Al-Zour refinery to Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com). The newly designed complex will increase the plant’s output capacity of fuels…
Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) announced that SEKISUI YOUNGBO HPP (WUXI) CO., a consolidated subsidiary of Sekisui located in Jiangsu Provine, China, commenced mass production and sales in May 2019. Sekisui Youngbo is a company that primarily manufactures polypropylene…
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.storaenso.com) is investing €10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin. Wood-based carbon can be utilized as a crucial component in batteries typically used in consumer electronics, the…
Airgas, an Air Liquide company (www.airgas.com), announced the grand opening of its new liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice facility in Stockton, California. The facility, which was engineered to have minimal environmental impact, is a zero runoff/discharge site. Technology at…