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…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Shaanxi Coal Yulin Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd. has selected LyondellBasell’s Spherizone and Lupotech T technologies. The technologies will be used in the Jingbian Chemical Industrial Park in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China. “The Spherizone technology enables polypropylene producers…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded an order for the delivery of technology and process equipment for a lithium carbonate plant in South America. The order, in the value of some €20 million, has been booked in Outotec's…
Indian Oil Corp. (IndianOil), India’s flagship national oil company, and carbon recycling company LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery offgas-to-bioethanol production facility in India. LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation…