Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has successfully started up a Kepstan PEKK (Poly-Ether-Ketone-Ketone) plant at its site near Mobile, Alabama. This investment is a new step in Arkema’s ambitious growth strategy in high-performance polymers and advanced materials development. This investment, which…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has started the pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) and FEED for INVISTA’s (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) new adiponitrile (ADN) manufacturing facility in China. The manufacturing facility is anticipated to have a production capacity of approximately 400,000…
Chemical manufacturers Hexion Inc. (Columbus, Ohio; www.hexion.com) and Momentive (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) announced, separately, that the companies have been responding to cybersecurity incidents. This follows a severe cyber-attack last week targeting Norwegian aluminum manufacturer Norsk Hydro and a December 2018…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) announced that its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A. and Tecnimont Nigeria Ltd. have been awarded a contract for the “Phase 1 Rehabilitation Project” by Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), to carry out a complete integrity check…
INEOS Oxide (London; www.ineos.com) has announced that it is to double the size of its planned ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene oxide derivatives (EOD) facility to be built on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The new plant will produce 1.2 billion…
Sibur (Moscow; www.sibur.com) announced that its Perm facility is 100% ready for commissioning, with the first batch of dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP) coming off the line and shipped to customers as part of the pre-commissioning pilot. “We have successfully completed the…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com)and PAO Severstal, a steel and mining company, have signed a new long-term contract for the supply of oxygen, nitrogen and argon in Cherepovets, Russia. Air Liquide will invest around 50 million euros in the construction of…
At Interphex, these companies will showcase a wide range of products and services aimed at research & development (R&D) projects, including fluid bed drying, spray drying, particle size reduction, tablet coating, high-shear granulation and vessel cleaning. These technologies can help…
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) announced that it is studying the addition of a world-scale 1-Hexene unit. The addition would expand normal alpha olefins (NAO) production, marketed under the brand name Alpha Plus. NAO are used…
Borouge (Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.; www.borouge.com) has awarded WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) the project management contract (PMC) for its Ruwais petrochemicals complex. Borouge is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Borealis AS. Under the…