BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has started production of methanol on the basis of renewable raw materials according to the biomass balance approach. The product name is EU-REDcert-methanol. The company replaces fossil raw materials with second-generation renewable raw materials and…
Synthomer (London, U.K.; www.synthomer.com) formally opened the latest 90,000-metric ton expansion of its nitrile latex production facility in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, in the presence of over 120 customers, suppliers, contractors, government officials and media representatives. The plant was officially opened…
TechnipFMC (Houston;www.technipfmc.com) announced that it has signed an exclusive collaboration agreement with Sumitomo Chemical Corp. (Tokyo; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) to license and engineer Sumitomo’s hydrogen chloride (HCI) oxidation technology. The technology is used to produce chlorine via the catalytic oxidation of hydrogen…
Showa Denko KK (SDK; Tokyo; www.sdk.co.jp) has completed expansion of the capacity to produce nanoparticle titanium oxide, which has been sold under the trade name of Super-Titania, at its wholly owned subsidiary Showa Denko Ceramics Co., Ltd. headquartered in Shiojiri…
NET Power, LLC (Durham, N.C.; www.netpower.com) and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp.(Houston; www.oxy.com) announced that they have reached an investment agreement, subject to regulatory approval. The investment will advance the development of NET…
It was announced jointly that DuPont Industrial Biosciences (www.biosciences.dupont.com) and VERBIO North America Corporation (VNA), the U.S. subsidiary of leading German bioenergy producer VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG, have reached terms for VNA to acquire DuPont’s Nevada, Iowa-based cellulosic ethanol plant…
Versalis (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.versalis.eni.com), RadiciGroup and Safitex have joined forces to make synthetic grass for sports fields recyclable in line with the principles of the circular economy. The project was presented today at Ecomondo and is the result…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract for the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of a new copper smelter to be located at Benete Bay in Sumbawa, Indonesia. The contract partner is PT Amman Mineral Industri, a subsidiary of…
LyondellBasell (Rottedam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that China Petrochemical International Co., Ltd (Sinopec International) and Sinopec-SK(Wuhan) Petrochemical Company Ltd., (Wuhan) have selected the LyondellBasell Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology. The low-pressure slurry process technology will be used for…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgchem.com) announced that it will appoint H.C. (Hak Cheol) Shin, a 61-year-old Vice Chair and Executive Vice President of 3M, as the new Vice Chairman & CEO of LG Chem. It is the first…