Sumitomo Chemical Corp. (Tokyo; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) has begun construction of a new plant in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province that will produce high-purity chemicals for semiconductor manufacturing. The new facility, located at Sumika Electronic Materials (Changzhou) Co., is Sumitomo’s second high-purity chemicals…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business has broken ground at its Kvarntorp plant in Sweden as part of a project to expand production capacity for chelated micronutrients, which are used as essential minerals in the agricultural market. The…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) announced the launch of Lotte Versalis Elastomers’ new integrated industrial complex for the production of elastomers in Yeosu, South Korea. Lotte Versalis Elastomers is a 50:50 joint venture between Versalis (Eni) and Lotte Chemical, a…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a fully integrated crude oil to chemicals (COTC) complex in the Kingdom of Saudi…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is building a new plant for high-performance plastics in Changzhou, China for around €20 million. Beginning in the second quarter of 2019, the compounding plant is set to produce up to 25,000 metric tons per year…
Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to evaluate a new world-scale Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) complex in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi. LAB is…
Airgas USA, LLC (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com), an Air Liquide company, announced plans to build a new air separation unit (ASU) in Mebane, N.C. The facility will increase Airgas’ production capabilities in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area while also strengthening its…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jill Lee as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Executive Committee, effective April 5, 2018. Jill has been a board member of Sulzer since 2011 and…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Tiangang Auxiliary Co., a privately owned producer and leading supplier of light stabilizers in China, kicked off their new production joint venture (JV) with the approval to purchase a site within the Cangzhou National Coastal-Port…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and Suez (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr) have won the contract to treat brine from reverse osmosis desalination at Wanhua Chemical Industry Park in Yantai (Shandong Province). This contract is part of the Alliance between Solvay and…