Chevron Phillips Chemical L.P. (CP Chem; The Woodlands, Tex.) announced plans to expand its propylene business with a final investment decision for a new C3 splitter unit. The unit’s location will be in Baytown, Texas, within the company’s Cedar Bayou…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has announced the project to double its UV curable resins production capacity at its Nansha plant in China. This expansion will support the fast-growing demand in Asia for cutting-edge solutions in electronics, driven by 5G technology,…
Anellotech (Pearl River, N.Y.) has produced 100% bio-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET), starting with bio-based p-Xylene using the company’s Bio-TCat technology through the subsequent downstream separation, purification, intermediate PTA (purified terephthalic acid) and final PET steps. This was the last milestone…
Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. and BASF New Business GmbH recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The agreement aims to develop and increase the manufacturing scale of advanced fuel cell membranes designed for long-term operations under extreme conditions. BASF intends…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) is opening a new technology center and manufacturing plant for high-quality adhesives and sealants in Pune, a city in the federal state of Maharashtra. Developments at the new R&D laboratories and the production in the new…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has announced that the implementation of the methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) capacity increase program for BASF’s Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana, is progressing on schedule. Over time, BASF plans to double the capacity from 300,000 metric…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.), announced the successful start-up of two 400,000-ton/yr UNIPOL PP process technology lines at Oriental Energy in Ningbo, China. This brings the total UNIPOL PP operating capacity in China to more than 6.3 million tons per year…
Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) announced that it has taken a positive Final Investment Decision (FID) on the construction of its Flagship Plant to produce furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). The positive FID was taken after the Company fulfilled all three Key Conditions…
DuPont Clean Technologies announces that the STRATCO alkylation unit at the Fujian Refining and Petrochemical Co., Ltd (FREP) refinery in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, has successfully started up and completed the performance test, certifying that the unit is meeting performance guarantees.…
Clariant’s Catalysts business unit recently made a significant investment to modernize its research facility in Toyama, Japan, preparing it for faster, more efficient experimentation. In addition to being Clariant’s global competence center for nickel-based hydrogenation and styrene catalyst development, the…