INEOS (London) announced that Ineos Oligomers is executing a phased 50% expansion of its LaPorte, Texas, High Viscosity (HV) PAO unit, fully effective by mid-2025. The unit was initially built with a nameplate capacity of 20,000 metric ton per year…
BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.) will increase the production capacity for key specialty amines manufactured at its Geismar, Louisiana site. After the completed production capacity expansion of a flexible world-scale production asset by mid-2023, BASF will be able to produce…
Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) has signed a license agreement with Shandong Binhua New Material Co., Ltd. (Binhua), a subsidiary of Befar Group, a leading petroleum and chemical enterprise in China, to build, own and operate a propylene oxide…
INEOS Oligomers announced that it has started up its new 120,000 ton/yr Low Viscosity Polyalphaolefin (LV PAO) unit at Chocolate Bayou, TX. This facility is the world’s largest single PAO train and complements existing units in La Porte, TX and…
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) is expanding its production capabilities in Mexico by opening a new plant for hot melt adhesives in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon. With a size of nearly 30,000 square-meter the new facility has been designed to primarily manufacture…
Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) is investing around €200 million to upgrade and expand its XLPE and semicon assets at existing production locations in Europe. This ambitious initiative will serve the wire and cable (W&C) market by safeguarding the reliable supply…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has invested in a new production line for water-based texture paints at its Songjiang site in Shanghai, China – boosting capacity for supplying more sustainable products. The site is one of four water-based decorative paints plants…
PKN Orlen (Płock, Poland) has secured the European Commission’s clearance of its intended merger with the LOTOS Group (Gdańsk, Poland). Closing an important phase of the merger process, the antitrust clearance marks a leap forward in building a strong multi-utility…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its Mining & Metals business was awarded a contract to perform engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) for Iluka Resources Limited’s Eneabba project, a fully integrated rare earths refinery in Eneabba, Western Australia. Fluor…
Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.) has successfully started operation at its new precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. The greenfield site at Barra Bonita establishes Amyris as the leading manufacturer of highly engineered organisms at industrial scale. The first of…