INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.com) completed its first successful test runs producing virgin polystyrene from previously depolymerized material. These experiments, completed at the company’s Antwerp site in Belgium, can be seen as the practical proof of the recyclability of polystyrene.…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has been awarded a major contract to supply pyro-processing and comminution equipment for a new lithium-hydroxide processing plant at Albemarle Corp.'s Kemerton site near Bunbury in South Western Australia. The construction of this greenfield project…
Toray Industries, Inc., (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) has decided to establish a new company in Foshan, China that will engage in production and sales of water-treatment membrane products, including reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF), ultrafiltration (UF), microfiltration (MF) and membrane bioreactor…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will increase the production capacity of alkylethanolamines (AEOA) by 20% at the BASF Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. After the start-up in 2020, BASF’s global annual nameplate capacity of AEOA will be more than 110,000…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) announced that its consolidated subsidiary, UBE Corporation Europe S.A.U. (UCE), has decided to acquire Spanish compound manufacturer Repol S.L. and has entered into an agreement for the transfer of shares. Details of the…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; www.nouryon.com) has started production of a new version of its dibenzoyl peroxide (BPO), Perkadox GB-50, at Los Reyes, Mexico. It is the first dry BPO on the market that does not use the desensitizing agent…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will increase the production capacity for its sodium methylate plant in Guaratinguetá, Brazil. The nameplate capacity will increase by 30%, from currently 60,000 metric tons to 80,000 metric tons. The new capacity will come onstream…
In December 2018, a Meros off-gas cleaning plant supplied by Primetals Technologies, Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) was started up at sinter plant No. 3 of Turkish steel producer Karabük Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir), followed by the Meros…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced that it has acquired KnowledgeNet (KNet) software from Tunisia-based Integration Objects. KNet’s unique analytics application software accelerates digital transformation initiatives for process and hybrid industries. KNet is used to extract, clean, transform and analyze…
Due to increasing global demand for high-performance polymers, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is expanding its production of transparent polyamides of the Trogamid CX brand at the Marl Chemical Park (Germany). Production expansion is scheduled for completion in the…