Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) has officially opened its new plant at the Les Roches-Roussillon Chemicals Industry Platform in Isère, France. Attending the event were Muriel Pénicaud, French Labor Minister, Yannick Neuder, Vice-President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region for higher education,…
Ineos (London; www.ineos.com) announced that INEOS Phenol is planning to expand the capacity of its plant in Mobile, Alabama (US) up to 850,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), making it the largest phenol production unit in the world. Hans Casier,…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co., Ltd (ZPCC) has selected LyondellBasell’s polypropylene (PP), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) technologies for five new plants. The plants will be built at Zhoushan City in…
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.; www.cabotcorp.com) has acquired NSCC Carbon (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. from Nippon Steel Carbon Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd. The carbon black manufacturing facility in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, China, was originally…
INEOS (London; www.ineos.com) has selected McDermott’s Lummus CATOFIN Technology as the operating technology for its planned world-scale Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) unit. A License Agreement has now been signed. In parallel, an agreement has been signed with Clariant for the long-term…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced the successful expansion of its production capacity of its sustainable liquid polyester technology and other specialty resins, through the operational launch of a new state-of-the-art polyester production facility in Meppen, Germany. DSM’s new…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) it has signed a project management contract (PMC) with Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited (LSP), a subsidiary of the Siam Cement Public Company Limited (SCG) of Thailand. Under the agreement, SNC-Lavalin and LSP will form…
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) successfully concluded the sale of its GEA Westfalia Separator Production France SAS entity — its French standard separators production facility and the respective real estate in Château-Thierry (Hauts-de-France region) to the French industrial group…
INEOS Enterprises (London; www.ineos.com) has confirmed that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the chemical intermediates business of Flint Hills Resources. The deal is expected to complete before the end of 2018, subject to regulatory approval. The…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany: www.siemens.com) and Southern Idaho Solid Waste (SISW) recently announced the successful commissioning of two SGE-56HM gas engines that are providing environmentally friendly electrical power for a landfill gas-to-energy project at the Milner Butte Landfill in Burley,…