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KBR awarded seven-year maintenance services contract by SATORP

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a landmark seven-year General Maintenance Services (GMS) contract, with an optional three-year extension, from Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP) for its strategic petrochemical expansion complex in Jubail, Kingdom…

Bilfinger extends framework agreement with Covestro

Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany) has received a five-year extension to its framework agreement with Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany). The collaboration, which began in 2014, includes both routine maintenance work and turnarounds of electrical equipment and systems at several Covestro sites…

Neste commissions world’s largest upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully commissioned its new upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic (LWP) at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. This EUR 111 million investment marks a major milestone in the scale-up of chemical recycling, enabling the production…

Arkema announces capacity expansion at PVDF manufacturing site in China

Arkema S.A. (Paris la Defense, France) announced a 20% expansion of production capacity at its Changshu Kynar® PVDF manufacturing site in China scheduled to start up in 2028. This significant investment reflects the Group’s strategy to increase its Kynar® PVDF…

KBR to support $300-million wastewater upgrade in Sydney

KBR Inc. (Houston), as part of the North West Hub Alliance (NWHA) with Sydney Water, John Holland and Stantec, will deliver the next scheme of wastewater treatment growth works in Sydney’s north-west, valued at AUD$300 million. Expected to be completed…

Aduro Clean Technologies signs LOI for future offtake of circular hydrocarbons

Aduro Clean Technologies (London, Ont., Canada; www.adurocleantech.com), a clean technology company using the power of chemistry to transform lower value feedstocks, like waste plastics, heavy bitumen, and renewable oils, into resources for the 21st century, announces that it has signed…

BASF to sell Softex business to GOVI CAST

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement to sell its Softex business to GOVI CAST Sdn. Bhd., a leading supplier of specialty chemicals. The transaction includes the customer list, formulation and production know-how, and a tolling/supply agreement…

Indorama Ventures to establish one of Africa’s largest recycling facilities for PET

Indorama Ventures Ltd. (Bangkok, Thailand), together with Nigerian Breweries Plc and Genesis Power & Energy Solutions Ltd, a leading African clean-energy infrastructure development and asset management company, have entered a strategic partnership to establish one of Africa’s largest state-of-the-art recycled…

Abundia and Topsoe enter partnership for waste-to-renewable fuels project

Abundia Global Impact Group, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has entered a multi-project licensing agreement with Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) , a leading global provider of technology and solutions for the energy transition, to deploy its HydroFlex® technology for the upgrading…

Clariant completes pilot project on pyrolysis-oil upgrading with Borealis

Clariant AG (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com), a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced the successful completion of a collaborative pilot-scale project with Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com), a leading provider of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions, and SINTEF (Trondheim, Norway; www.sintef.no), one…