Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) announced the commencement of commercial production of purified isophthalic acid (PIA) plant at Indorama Ventures Xylenes & PTA, LLC, located at Decatur, Alabama, USA The Decatur PIA plants complement IVL’s existing…
Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem; Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia; www.sipchem.com) is pleased to announce that the ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) Film Plant, owned by Saudi Specialized Products Company (SSPC), an affiliate of Sipchem, commenced commercial operations on January 1, 2019.…
PolyOne Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.polyone.com) announced the acquisition of Fiber-Line (Hatfield, Pa.; www.fiber-line.com), a global leader in customized engineered fibers and composite materials for $120 million. Founded in 1987, Fiber-Line has utilized its customer-centric culture and specialty innovation to establish…
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling facility from Custom Polymers PET in Alabama, U.S. The facility consists of two production lines; Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (rPET)…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) announced that Syndial, Eni’s environmental services company, has begun operating at its pilot plant at the Gela refinery in Sicily, Italy. The plant transforms Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) by recycling it into bio-oil, which…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) announced the completion of Saudi Aramco’s acquisition of LANXESS‘s interest in ARLANXEO Holding B.V., a Netherlands-based specialty chemicals joint venture between Saudi Aramco and LANXESS launched in 2016.…
DuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers (T&AP), a global business unit of the DowDuPont’s (www.dow-dupont.com) Specialty Products Division, recently announced its intention to extend its High Temperature Nylon (DuPont Zytel HTN PPA) polymerization capacity at Uentrop facility in Hamm, Germany. With…
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdmillipore.com) announced it has extended and expanded its collaboration with Kuraray Europe GmbH (www.kuraray.eu) to exclusively supply pharmaceutical polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) grades and improvements to benefit the pharmaceutical market. PVA polymers are used as matrix/drug delivery compounds to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) intends to expand the production capacity for methane sulfonic acid (MSA) at its Ludwigshafen site by around 65% and increase the global capacity to 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). With the investment, the company…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.com) has announced the final investment decision to construct a new ASA (acrylonitrile styrene acrylate) plant at its site in Bayport, Texas. The new plant’s capacity is planned to be 100,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr).…