Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced it has signed multiple contracts totaling $12 million with India’s largest commercial oil company, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), to modernize operations and emissions programs at the company’s refineries. Under the contracts, Emerson will…
CP Kelco (Atlanta, Ga.; www.cpkelco.com) announced that it will invest to increase its pectin production capacity at its Limeira, Brazil facility by 10%. This investment will enhance market supply by the end of 2019. “All around the world our customers…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) and Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) have announced that they will open a joint research and development (R&D) laboratory in Les Avenières (Isère), France in April. This follows the companies’ previous announcement in March 2018 that…
In February 2019, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) founded the new company BASF Digital Solutions S.L. located in Madrid, Spain to drive forward the digital transformation of BASF group and develop innovative IT solutions. BASF plans to grow the center…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) signed an agreement with COREPLA, the National Consortium for the Collection, Recycling and Recovery of Plastic Packaging, to launch research projects to produce hydrogen from non-recyclable plastic packaging waste. The agreement was signed by Giuseppe…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) announced its intention to pursue the launch of an innovative advanced circular recycling technology that uses polyester waste, which cannot be recycled by current mechanical methods, and as a result, often ends up in…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; www.nouryon.com) has selected a location in the U.S. for a world-scale polymerization plant for its Expancel expandable microspheres. The project will significantly strengthen the company’s leadership position in expandable microspheres, which are used to make…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealis.com has awarded Tecnimont, main contractor of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) with the engineering, procurement, construction management (EPCM) and commissioning services contract for a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant, including the requisite utilities and…
Royal Dutch Shell N.V. (Shell; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) has joined the W2C Rotterdam initiative, as an equity partner, with Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com), Enerkem (Montreal,Canada; www.enerkem.com), Nouryon (Amsterdam; www.nouryon.com) and the Port of Rotterdam. Shell will become an equal…
Celanese Corp.(Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced the expansion of its Pibiflex and Riteflex TPC (thermoplastic co-polyester) production unit at the Donegani facility in Ferrara, Italy to support the continued growth of its global engineered materials business. Celanese recently added one more…