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Grupa Azoty launches polypropylene production at Polimery Police

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 to increase production capacity for spherical silica product

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 and thyssenkrupp Uhde cooperate on NOx abatement

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 opens new production plant in eastern India

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…

Engie and Posco leading consortium to develop green-ammonia project in Oman

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…

Aramco and TotalEnergies announce EPC contracts for $11-billion Amiral petrochemicals facility

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…

World’s largest propane dehydrogenation unit to be built in Turkey using Honeywell technology

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 expands U.S. operations, including increased production capacity of emulsion resins

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 acquires VakuumExperten i Sverige AB

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 opens Biodegradation and Microplastics Center of Excellence in North America

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…