Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.com) signed a $500-million contract with Long Son Petrochemicals Co., Ltd. (LSP), a subsidiary of SCG Chemicals, for a polyolefins project in Vietnam at an official signing ceremony at the SCG Chemicals headquarters in…
As part of the voluntary commitments for the French government’s Circular Economy Roadmap and in line with French and European Union objectives in the area of plastic recycling, Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France; www.saint-gobain.com), Citeo and…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is continuing to expand its silica production capacity in response to high demand within the tire industry. Precipitated silica materials are an essential ingredient in tires with reduced rolling resistance and, as part of…
To meet growing customer demand in Europe, Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) will increase its European production capacity for neopentyl glycol (NPG). A debottlenecking project for NPG at the Oberhausen, Germany, production site is underway. Oxea has already…
Global Bioenergies (Every, France; www.global-bioenergies.com) announced having reached a new milestone in scaling up its C3 process converting renewable resources into isopropanol and acetone. These two bio-based compounds target large markets in the cosmetics and solvent segments. They can also…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been selected to provide design, engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) support services for the Candelaria Mill Optimization Project (CMOP) at the Candelaria Mining Complex located near the city of Copiapó in…
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has opened its Innovation and Interaction Center (IIC) for 3D Printing at its Tallaght site near Dublin, Ireland. The IIC, which is the first in a new generation of global industrial customer…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract to expand capacity for the manufacture of Tyvek nonwoven materials by DuPont Safety & Construction at its facility in Contern, Luxembourg. Under the terms of the reimbursable contract,…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Hyosung Vietnam Corp. Ltd., has selected Spheripol polypropylene (PP) process technology for a 300,000 metric tons per year plant in Vietnam. “The Spheripol process is the most widely used polypropylene technology in the…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and Xin Feng Ming Group Co., Ltd. entered an agreement to license BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology to Dushan Energy Ltd., a subsidiary of Xinfengming. BP and Xinfengming also signed a memorandum of…