Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) signed an agreement for a $3.5 billion coal-to-syngas production facility to be built in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China. The agreement was signed in the Great Hall of the People as part of the…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) and Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a technological cooperation agreement to develop a pioneering route to produce monoethylene glycol (MEG) from sugar. The agreement calls for the construction of a demonstration plant…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) developed a new variety of regular-tow carbon and has decided to build a new carbonization facility for mass production at the company’s Mexico Plant in Jalisco, operated by its U.S. subsidiary Zoltek Companies, Inc.…
Indorama Ventures Public Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) will acquire the assets of Artlant PTA, S.A. (Artlant), including all equipment, surface rights and employment contracts. Artlant operates a purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant in the Sines Industrial Complex in Portugal,…
DowDuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers (www.plastics.dupont.com.), a business segment of the DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, announced that it is increasing production capacity at its Mechelen, Belgium, site to meet strong customer demand for DuPont Zytel HTN high-performance polyamide resin used in the…
Abengoa (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has received Notice to Proceed on what will be the first plant that will produce biofuels from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States with gasification technology. Prior to this, Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc., who Abengoa…
Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) will sign a mining agreement with the Ethiopian authorities, making possible the future development of the Yara Dallol potash mine. The mining agreement will be signed at a ceremony in Addis Abeba by Ethiopian…
Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC (Shell; www.shell.com/chemicals) announced the official start of the main construction phase of its major petrochemicals complex in Pennsylvania, USA. This follows the successful completion of the site preparation and detailed design and engineering work. The final…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has inaugurated its Solef polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) plant in China, to meet booming global demand for this thermoplastic polymer in energy-efficient, environmental and industrial applications. “Solvay’s consistent expansion on the Changshu site, this time with a new…
Innophos Holdings, Inc. (Cranbury, N.J.; www.innophos.com) announced that it has acquired NutraGenesis, a Vermont-based marketer of proprietary, branded and science-backed nutraceutical ingredients. Under the terms of the purchase agreement, Innophos has acquired all of the outstanding equity interests of NutraGenesis…