Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) announced that it has successfully introduced feedstock and commenced operations of a new ethane cracker at its Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas. At peak production, the unit will produce 1.5…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) have awarded Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) a contract for project management and front-end engineering design (FEED) for the partners’ fully integrated, strategic…
SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr), through its subsidiary SERAMM in Marseille (France), officially began the construction of a biomethane production and injection plant, produced from wastewater treatment processes. The Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan area, SUEZ, the French Water Agency, the French Environment and…
To strengthen the company’s position in the North American market, Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has approved the establishment of a new production unit for brazed heat exchangers in Richmond, Virginia. The investment will support Alfa Laval’s global growth…
Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) was recently awarded, by Refineria Isla, a contract to perform pre-FEED Engineering work to supply natural gas from Venezuela to Refineria Isla Curaçao B.V. in Curaçao. The project is part of the Refineria Isla modernization project.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has closed its agreement to form BASF Toda America LLC (BTA). As the next step in BASF’s business growth strategy for its battery materials business, the new entity will be majority owned and controlled by…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) announces that it has, in consortium with TechnipFMC, been awarded a lump-sum EPC contract to supply NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Canada; www.novachem.com) with two gas cracking furnaces. This award supports the recently announced third phase…
Kuraray Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kuraray.com), PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC; Bangkok, Thailand; www.pttgcgroup.com) and Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo; www.sumitomocorp.co.jp) have jointly signed an agreement to establish a joint venture company focused on the progression of a feasibility study for the manufacturing…
Solenis International, L.P. (Wilmington, Del.; www.solenis.com) completed the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Topchim NV. Headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, Topchim is a leading ecological coating company for the paper, cardboard, and packaging converting industries in Europe. Solenis will…
Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.ecolab.com) has sold its phosphonate component business in China that was acquired as part of its 2015 Jianghai acquisition to Italmatch Chemicals S.p.A. (Genova, Italy; www.italmatch.com). The acquired business, Jaiyou Chemical Co., is active in…