Grupa Azoty SA (Tarnów, Poland) has launched production of polypropylene at Polymery Police, one of the largest projects in the European chemical industry. The new plant will produce 437,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)of polypropylene and 429,000 m.t./yr of propylene.…
AGC (Tokyo) announced that its subsidiary AGC Si-Tech Co. is increasing production capacity for Resifa Sunsphere, a silica product used in cosmetic products made from natural sources. At the Company's Wakamatsu Plant (Wakamatsu-Ward, Kitakyushu City), facility expansion will be implemented…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and thyssenkrupp Uhde (Essen, Germany) announced their cooperation in the marketing and further development of catalyst and process design for thyssenkrupp Uhde’s leading EnviNOx technology for N2O and NOx abatement. BASF will supply its high-performance catalysts…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) is opening a new plant in Kharagpur, eastern India, and continues to expand production capacity in the fast-growing Indian market. The plant will manufacture mortar products, concrete admixtures, and shotcrete accelerators for customers in the West…
As part of the "Hydrom Phase A Round 1" call for projects, the consortium led by Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, France) and POSCO (Pohang-si, South Korea) was awarded land block (Z1-02) by Hydrom, the orchestrator and master planner of…
The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco; Dhahran) and TotalEnergies SE (Paris) awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the $11 billion Amiral complex, a future world scale petrochemicals facility expansion at the SATORP refinery in the Kingdom of Saudi…
Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş. will build the world’s largest Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Yumurtalık, Türkiye using the latest generation of Honeywell Oleflex technology. The facility will have the capacity to produce 1-million-tons…
Nippon Shokubai America Industries, Inc. (NAII), the U.S. subsidiary of NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD., has launched marketing and capital investment initiatives to expand the Nippon Shokubai Group’s Solutions Business, a division that leverages the company’s research and development (R&D) capabilities…
Busch Vakuumteknik AB, a business of The Busch Group, has acquired the Gothenburg-based service company VakuumExperten i Sverige AB, which specializes in preventive and remedial maintenance work in vacuum technology. “The acquisition of VakuumExperten is in line with our promise…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has officially opened its Biodegradation and Microplastics Center of Excellence at its site in Wyandotte, Michigan to help customers across North America achieve their circularity and sustainability goals. The center’s targets include providing holistic, tailored solutions…