Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (SSTPC), a joint venture between Sinopec and SABIC, relies on Meteor (Most Effective Technology for Ethylene Oxide Reaction) Process from The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to produce ethylene oxide (EO) / ethylene…
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC (EMCTL) and ExxonMobil Catalyst Technologies LLC (EMCT; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) today announced that Suphon Tubtimcharoon, managing director of Thai Paraxylene Company Ltd. (TPX; www.thaioil.co.th/product/petrochemical_en.php), and Gary T. Schmidt, vice president of EMCTL and President of EMCT, signed…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) for the delivery of Kaldo furnace technology to Boliden’s Rönnskär copper smelter in Sweden. The delivery will be a part of Boliden’s electronic-scrap recycling facility…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) today announced that its Advanced Engineered Materials business has completed a transaction to acquire two product lines, DuPont Zenite liquid crystal polymer (LCP) and Thermx polycyclohexylene-dimethylene terephthalate (PCT), from DuPont Performance Polymers. “This acquisition will…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) and TSRC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan www.tsrc.com.tw) will enter into a 50:50 joint venture (JV) in Greater China called Lanxess-TSRC (Nantong) Chemical Industrial Company Ltd. The two companies are jointly investing $50 million in a new plant…
Concern over the economic crisis in Greece continued to widen and drag stocks down in the U.S. and elsewhere. The S&P 500 Index fell 6.5% last week, while the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) market capitalization of U.S. basic and specialty…
Pemex Refinacion (Pemex-Refining; Mexico; www.ref.pemex.com) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a contract, which includes the modernization of eight existing diesel hydrotreaters and licensing of one new diesel hydrotreater at the Pemex Tula and Salamanca Refineries in…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to expand its gas supply network for steel conglomerate ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe at its largest production location in Duisburg, Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, Linde will construct another industrial-scale air…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that its American affiliate Solvay Chemicals, Inc. has commissioned and brought online one of the world’s only dedicated manufacturing facilities that reclaims and transforms sodium carbonate waste streams from processed trona into a marketable…
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC (Loudon, Tenn), a joint venture between DuPont (www.dupont.com) and Tate & Lyle (www.tateandlyle.com), today announced an expansion to their facility here to increase production of bio-based 1,3 propanediol (Bio-PDO) by 35%. Construction is…