Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has received the full notice to proceed for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper project in the Moquegua region in the south of Peru. Fluor will book the undisclosed…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a license and engineering and a proprietary equipment supply contract by China Pingmei Shenma Group (PMSM) to build two new polycarbonate plants in Kaifeng and Pingdingshan in the Henan Province…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary: www.mol.hu and APK AG (www.apk.ag) signed a strategic cooperation agreement yesterday in Merseburg, Germany. As a first step in the cooperation MOL will support the completion of APK’s Merseburg plant. The plant will serve as a…
Ascend Performance Materials, LLC (Houston; www.ascendmaterials.com) announced the purchase of Britannia Techno Polymer (BTP), an engineering plastics compounder based in the Netherlands. The acquisition provides Ascend with a leading engineering plastics manufacturing base in Europe and an expansion to its…
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sorepla Industrie S.A., a plastics recycler in France. Founded in 1991, Sorepla Industrie is one of the largest recyclers in Europe.…
INVISTA (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) has begun work to bring its latest adiponitrile (ADN) technology to China to satisfy the strong, local demand for the nylon 6,6 intermediate chemical. Engineering for a new plant with a minimum production capacity of 300,000…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) celebrated the groundbreaking of its Greenville, TX manufacturing expansion that increases the site’s resin mixing capacity to meet the growing needs of commercial and military aerospace composite customers. Local officials joined the site and project…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) announced that operations have commenced at its new 1.5 million ton-per-year ethane cracker at the company’s integrated Baytown chemical and refining complex. The new cracker, part of ExxonMobil’s Growing the Gulf initiative, will provide ethylene…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced a cooperation project with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; www.kit.edu) to advance the chemical recycling of plastic materials and assist the global efforts towards the circular economy and plastic waste recycling needs. The focus…
Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.axaltacs.com) announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Terrence Hahn as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 4, 2018, succeeding Charlie Shaver, who served as Axalta’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 2013. Mr. Hahn…