Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com), Johnson Matthey (London, U.K.; www.matthey.com), GIDARA Energy (Schiphol, the Netherlands; www.gidara-energy.com) and SAMSUNG E&A (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungena.com) today announced the formation of a strategic technology alliance to bring a groundbreaking end-to-end global solution to market…
Aditya Birla Group (Mumbai, India; www.adityabirla.com), a leading Indian multinational conglomerate, today announced the expansion of its U.S. Advanced Materials business with the acquisition of Cargill Incorporated’s (Wayzata, Minn.; www.cargill.com) 17-acre specialty chemical manufacturing facility in Dalton, Ga. The acquisition…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) today announced that it has entered into an agreement and exclusive negotiations with AEQUITA (Munich, Germany; www.aequita.com) for the sale of select olefins and polyolefins assets and the associated business in Europe. The sites to…
Carbon Clean (London, U.K.; www.carbonclean.com), a global leader in carbon capture solutions, and MODEC (Tokyo, Japan; www.modec.com), a leading provider of offshore floating platforms, have signed a landmark agreement to jointly develop and scale Carbon Clean’s CycloneCC carbon capture technology…
Plant Watch Cariflex opens $355-million latex plant in Singapore May 15, 2025 — Cariflex Pte. Ltd. (Singapore; www.cariflex.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of DL Chemical Co., Ltd. (DL Chemical), inaugurated its new polyisoprene latex plant at Jurong Island, Singapore. With…
Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce future dependence on fossil-fuel-derived chemicals. To further the economic viability of industrial fermentation processes, engineers have turned to genetic modification to stimulate production…
In a recent data release, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) said global chemical production rose in April, while U.S. chemical production fell. ACC said, "Following a 0.7% gain in March, ACC’s Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global…
On the latest episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins discusses the digital transformation in the chemical process industries (CPI) with Jonathan Alexander, the manufacturing artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics manager within Albemarle Corp.'s global manufacturing…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for March 2025 (most recent available) was higher than the previous month’s value. The current value returned to near its value from the start of the year, after a small…
Occidental (Oxy; Houston, Tex.; www.oxy.com) and its subsidiary 1PointFive today announced an agreement with XRG, ADNOC’s (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; www.adnoc.com) investment company, to evaluate a potential joint venture to develop a direct air capture (DAC) facility in South…