The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) rose for October by 0.4% on a three-month-moving-average basis, according to the ACC’s latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report. The data show the 4th quarter…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has been selected for the modernization project of the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery that will enable the refinery, located at Baku, to increase its annual processing capacity, from 6.0 to 7.5 million ton/yr, and produce…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-kagaku.co.jp) and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC) announced plans to jointly market a dehydration system using the MCC-developed Zebrex zeolite membranes for bioethanol production processes in the U.S. MCC provides the zeolite membranes and modules…
Wood Group (Houston; www.woodgroup.com) has agreed to acquire The Infinity Group, a family-owned Texas Gulf Coast industrial construction and maintenance contractor serving the petrochemical, refining and gas processing sectors, for an initial consideration of $150 million. Established in 1952, Infinity…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has completed a world-scale isononanol (INA) plant for BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) in the Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, Maoming, China. The plant, which is a first-of-its-kind in China, was recently…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Asian Paints Limited (APL) to provide engineering services for a greenfield paint plant in India. Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is providing detailed engineering and…
Platform Specialty Products Corp. (West Palm Beach, Fla.; www.platformspecialtyproducts.com), a global diversified specialty chemicals company, announced that the scheme of arrangement with Alent plc (Woking, U.K.; www.alent.com), dated August 17, 2015, including the terms and conditions of Platform's previously-announced recommended…
LUXI Chemical Group Co., Ltd. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) Advanced Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) process to convert methanol derived from gasified coal into 293,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of ethylene and propylene at its facility in Liaocheng,…
Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) and LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have developed a metabolic ‘toolkit’ that has been successfully applied to generate novel metabolic pathways to bio-derived butadiene and key precursors, such as 1,3 butanediol and 2,3 butanediol, resulting in new…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the polypropylene (PP) compounding assets of Zylog Plastalloys Ltd. (Zylog) of India. Upon completion of the acquisition, LyondellBasell will double its automotive customer base…