With the steel work that will house the main process reactor in place at its Atlas Point manufacturing site in New Castle, Delaware, Croda International Plc (Snaith, U.K.; www.croda.com) came a step closer to completing the first plant in North…
Univation Technologies (Houston; www.univation.com) and The Linde Group’s (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) Engineering Division have entered into a cooperation agreement aimed at providing performance and cost efficiencies for the production of polyethylene (PE) resins. The parties expect that this exclusive partnership…
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com) announced the successful completion of the naphtha cracker capacity-expansion project, which has been ongoing since Sept. 2013. After the expansion, the annual production capacity of CAP petrochemical products will increase by…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has started up a large air separation plant in northern China for the Yankuang Guohong Chemical Co. facility in Zoucheng City. Yankuang Guohong Chemical Co., Ltd is a subsidiary of Yankuang Group, which has total…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been selected by Gazprom, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk and its general contractor NIPIgas as the licenser for cryogenic gas separation technology at the Amur Gas Processing Plant (Amur GPP), located in the far east…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) announced that it has decided to switch to a new manufacturing process for cyclohexanone at the Ube Chemical Factory in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Cyclohexanone manufactured at the Ube Chemical Factory is mainly…
Anellotech Inc. (Pearl River, N.Y.; www.anellotech.com), a sustainable technology company focused on producing cost-competitive renewable chemicals from non-food biomass, announced that the company has selected South Hampton Resources (SHR), a wholly owned subsidiary of Trecora Resources as the operating partner…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and Rosneft (Moscow, Russia; www.rosneft.com) announced that they have signed a binding agreement to dissolve the existing refining joint venture (JV) Ruhr Oel GmbH (ROG) as they move toward completion of the previously announced restructuring of…
3M (St. Paul, Minn.; www.3m.com) announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell to Innovative Chemical Products Group (ICP Group), a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, the assets of 3M’s Pressurized Polyurethane Foam Adhesives business (formerly known…
Tesoro Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.tsocorp.com) announced its plan to foster the development of biocrude made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries, along with traditional crude oil. Converting renewable biomass into biocrude is expected to…