Dow Corning (Midland, Mich.; www.dowcorning.com) announced today it has started research activities in the newly completed Solar Energy Exploration and Development (SEED) research center, in Seneffe, Belgium, which focuses on the development and discovery of new silicon materials and technologies…
On June 15, 2012 Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby. Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed the agreement with TEDA to purchase land for a new catalyst plant in the Tianjin city of China. Topsøe has been present in China for more than 50…
Davy Process Technology Ltd. (DPT; London; www.davyprotech.com), a Johnson Matthey company, and The Dow Chemical Company’s (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) Oxygenated Solvents business announced that Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yan’an Energy and Chemical Co., (Yan’an Energy), a project entity invested in…
Celanese Corp. Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) plans to construct and operate a methanol production facility at its Clear Lake, Texas acetyl complex. As one of the world’s largest producers of acetyl products, the company plans to utilize its existing infrastructure to…
PTA (pure terephthalic acid) and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) producer Lotte Chemical UK Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of KP Chemical Corp. (Korea) and part of the Lotte group of companies, has commissioned Uhde Inventa-Fischer AG (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland;…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today its Thai affiliate Vinythai will serve the vast and growing Chinese epichlorohydrin market with a new production plant in Taixing, China. The plant with an initial capacity of 100,000 ton/yr epichlorohydrin requires an…
The Coca-Cola Co., Ford Motor Co., H.J. Heinz Co., NIKE, Inc. and Procter & Gamble today announced the formation of the Plant PET Technology Collaborative (PTC), a strategic working group focused on accelerating the development and use of 100% plant-based…
The number of jobs within U.S. chemical businesses fell by 1,200 in May, to 796,100, but the drop was centered entirely on non-production worker employment, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington, D.C.; www.bls.gov) that were…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Cristal Global, the second largest titanium-dioxide-pigment producer in the world, on the design and delivery of technology and services for new ilmenite smelting facilities to be located in Jazan Economic City, Saudi…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €75 million in the construction of a new plant for high-tech plastics in Antwerp. The world-scale facility for polyamide plastics is designed for an annual capacity of 90,000 metric tons and scheduled to…