GAIL Ltd. (New Delhi, India; www.gailonline.com) has successfully produced Metallocene linear-low density polyethylene (mLLDPE) on its world-class 400,000 MT per annum UNIPOL PE Reactor line located in Pata, Uttar Pradesh, India on 17th January 2019. GAIL's Metallocene LLDPE resin…
HTX Labs LLC (Houston; www.htxlabs.com) the creator of enterprise immersive training simulations and technology for global business entities and government institutes, and Solvay GBU Peroxides North America (www.solvay.com/en), an industry leader in advanced materials and specialty chemicals, announced today a…
ExxonMobil (www.exxonmobil.com) and SABIC (www.sabic.com) have decided to proceed with the construction of a chemical facility and 1.8-million metric ton ethane steam cracker in Texas. The joint-venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC, called Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, received final environmental regulatory…
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Houston; www.orioncarbons.com), a worldwide supplier of specialty and high-performance carbon black, today announced that it will expand its production capacity for gas blacks at its Cologne (Kalscheuren) plant, Germany. Orion is responding to the continuously growing…
INVISTA Performance Technologies (IPT; Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) and Koch-Glitsch (Wichita, Kan.; www.koch-glitsch.com), affiliates of Koch Industries Inc., announced today an expansion of their partnership to offer the proprietary ExoS technology to customers. The technology allows refineries to generate an olefin…
Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) announced the successful completion of a de-bottlenecking of its diethylhydroxylamine (DEHA) unit in St. Gabriel, La. The debottlenecking has resulted in a 15 to 20 percent increase in capacity. “With growth in demand for…
Minimizing Explosion Risk Where Other Solutions Cannot To run carbon disulfide recovery with the highest safety, a Chinese chemical company wanted to install a tunable diode laser (TDL) oxygen analyzer. But the line size of the pipe at the installation…
FAR Chemical (Palm Bay, Fla.; www.far-chemical.com), a leader in scaling up and manufacturing multi-step chemical syntheses and handling highly active materials, announced today that it will expand its Palm Bay, Florida facility. FAR specializes in fine and specialty chemicals such…
BASF New Business GmbH (BNB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German chemical group BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Japanese ceramics manufacturer NGK Insulators Ltd. (NGK) today announced the conclusion of a sales partnership agreement (SPA). The agreement gives BNB non-exclusive…
Total SA (Paris; www.total.com) has started up production from the Culzean gas condensate field, located on Block 22/25a, 230 kilometers off the coast of Aberdeen, U.K. With a plateau production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), Culzean…