Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) capacity expansions and debottlenecking projects at the company’s global manufacturing facilities. At the company’s Clear Lake, Texas acetyls manufacturing facility, Celanese is on schedule to start up…
CarbonCure Technologies Inc. (Halifax, N.S., Canada; www.carboncure.com) has announced a strategic commercial relationship with Airgas, (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com) an Air Liquide company, to collaborate and enhance the cement and concrete industry customer experience of adopting carbon dioxide (CO2) utilization technologies throughout the U.S. Gulf Coast region.…
Italmatch Chemicals Group (Genova, Italy; www.italmatch.com) entered into an agreement to quire the metalworking fluid business (formally known at Polartech) from Afton Chemical (Richmond, Va.; www.aftonchemical.com). In particular, the deal includes the acquisition of the entire business and assets relating…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) received a contract from ENCINA Chemicals, LLC (Coral Gables, Fla.; www.encina.com) to provide operations readiness (OR) support services for its new benzene toluene xylene (BTX) processing plant in Gillette, Wyoming. As part of…
Badger Licensing LLC (Boston; Mass.; www.badgerlicensing.com) announced that Fujian Gulei Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (GLPC) has selected Badger’s proprietary technologies for a 600,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) grassroots ethylbenzene / styrene monomer (EB/SM) plant being built in Gulei Economic Development…
In a second significant step toward the implementation of Saudi Aramco (Dhahran; www.saudiaramco.com) and SABIC’s (www.sabic.com) fully-integrated crude oil-to-chemicals (COTC) complex in Saudi Arabia, the two partners have awarded a contract to KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) for the COTC project management…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has just successfully brought on stream new Kynar PVDF (Polyvinylidene fluoride or polyvinylidene difluoride) capacities in its Calvert City plant in the United States. With this 20% increase in its U.S. production capacities, Arkema will further…
Hyundai Engineering Co. (HEC; Seoul, South Korea; www.eng.hec.co.kr) won a 290 billion won ($273.2 million) refinery project from a major Thai energy company, the latest in a string of deals it has struck in the region. Last week, HEC signed…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) announced that it has developed torrefied pellets carbonized from woody biomass, for use in coal-fired power plants as a co-firing ratio of 10% or more. The torrefied pellets, which are obtained by roasting…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has commissioned three new biomethane production units, in the U.S., in France, and in the U.K. With these units, Air Liquide has doubled its biomethane production capacity, which now stands at 60 MW, the equivalent of 500 GWh for…