Chemical Engineering
Rio Tinto opens $1.4-billion lithium projects in Argentina
Rio Tinto plc (London, U.K.) announced a major milestone for Argentina’s lithium industry, marking the official opening of Rio Tinto’s Fénix 1B expansion and Sal de Vida operation in Catamarca following a combined investment of around $1.4 billion. Both projects…
MilliporeSigma opens bioprocessing production center in Daejeon, South Korea
MilliporeSigma (Burlington, Mass.), the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the opening of a new Asia-Pacific Bioprocessing Production Center in Daejeon, South Korea. The center represents an investment of more than €300 million,…
AkzoNobel completes $60-million upgrade of three North American powder coatings sites
Upgrades to production, infrastructure and technology have been made at three of AkzoNobel N.V.'s (Amsterdam) Powder Coatings sites in North America as part of a $60 million investment. The company's facilities in Reading, Pennsylvania; Warsaw, Indiana; and Monterrey, Mexico, have…
PTT Global Chemical, SCG Chemicals plan olefins, polyolefins JV in Thailand
PTT Global Chemical Public Co. Ltd. (GC; Bangkok, Thailand) and SCG Chemicals Public Co. Ltd. (SCGC; Bangkok, Thailand) have announced plans to combine their olefins and polyolefins businesses in Thailand to strengthen the Thai petrochemical industry's competitiveness on the global…
Fujifilm to boost magnetic tape production capacity fivefold
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) has decided to invest approximately 10 billion yen at its Kanagawa Factory, Odawara Site to increase its production capacity for data storage magnetic tape by approximately five times. The investment will strengthen Fujifilm’s stable supply system for…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde awarded FEED for CF Industries’ proposed urea liquor upgrade plant in Ontario
thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) study by an affiliate of CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Northbrook, Ill.), one of the world's leading manufacturers of hydrogen and nitrogen products, for a proposed new urea…
BASF inaugurates alkyl polyglucosides expansion in Cincinnati
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has inaugurated the expansion of its alkyl polyglucosides (APGs) production capacity at its Cincinnati, Ohio, site, further strengthening the company’s manufacturing footprint in the U.S. First announced in 2023, the expansion reinforces Cincinnati’s role in BASF’s…
Técnicas Reunidas to supply hydrogen reformers for Dangote fertilizer complex in Ethiopia
Dangote Industries Ltd. (Lagos, Nigeria) has awarded Técnicas Reunidas, S.A. (Madrid, Spain) a contract to supply two hydrogen production reformers for the new ammonia and urea fertilizer complex that Dangote is developing in Gode, in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Dangote is…
Syensqo ends production of C6O4, its last fluorosurfactant, at Italian site
Syensqo S.A. (Brussels) announced the end of production of C6O4, the last fluorosurfactant used in the manufacture of certain fluoropolymers at its Spinetta Marengo site (Italy). With this step, the company delivers on the innovation commitment it announced in 2022 to phase out…
ENEOS completes acquisition of TPC Group, creating one of the world’s largest butadiene producers
ENEOS Holdings, Inc.’s (Tokyo) ownership of TPC Group Inc. (Houston), North America’s largest independent processor of C4 hydrocarbons used in the production of synthetic rubber, fuels, lubricant additives, plastics and surfactants, will create one of the world’s largest butadiene production…