The Chinese Petroleum Corp. (CPC) awarded DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont; Wilmington, Del.; www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) the contract to supply the technology license, engineering and proprietary equipment for a MECS DynaWave wet-gas scrubbing unit to be installed at its Taoyuan refinery in Taiwan in August…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business is working on plans to double production capacity at its organic peroxides facility in Ningbo, China, during the next two years. A project to boost the capacity by 40% is already underway,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) started the production of Palatinol DOTP (dioctyl terephthalate), a general-purpose plasticizer, at its Pasadena, Tex. facility, with a nameplate capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The plant enables BASF to respond to the…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Huntsman (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) announced that they have signed a long-term agreement for Air Products to build, own and operate a new steam methane reformer (SMR) and cold box in Geismar, Louisiana.…
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) have signed a framework agreement under which the companies will advance two key projects that will expand both ADNOC and Borealis downstream petrochemicals business and support the…
Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com), a joint venture developed by Dow and Saudi Aramco, has successfully started up its Amines plant. The Sadara Amines plant is composed of two separate facilities, the Ethanolamines plant and the Ethyleneamines plant,…
Endress+Hauser has invested €4.5 million in a new sales office in Shah Alam near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The new facility will be used mainly to expand the company’s training offering in order to provide more in-depth customer support. “The new…
Teijin Aramid (Arnhem, the Netherlands; www.teijinaramid.com) announced it is going to expand its aramid production capacity for its Twaron super fiber. It will invest in new spinning technology at the Twaron facility in Emmen, the Netherlands, starting up in the…
Versum Materials, Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.; www.versummaterials.com), a global materials supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced that it has agreed to acquire Dynaloy, LLC from Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) for approximately $13 million. Dynaloy is a leading supplier of…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) announced an investment plan of around €300 million over five years in the biosourced polyamide 11 chain. This major investment will enable the group to increase its polyamide 11 global production capacities by 50%. The project…