The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) issued a Safety Alert (www.csb.gov/assets/1/7/CSB_Harvey2017_05.pdf) urging oil and chemical facilities to take special precautions when restarting in the wake of shutdowns due to Hurricane Harvey. The startup of…
Honeywell (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) today announced that Kuwait Paraxylene Production Co. (KPPC) will use two Honeywell Connected Plant services to improve the performance of its CCR Platforming and aromatics complex, which produces p-xylene for plastic fibers and films, at…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets from Evonik Industries AG on September 5, 2017, following the close of Evonik’s acquisition of J.M. Huber Corp.’s silicas business. The assets…
ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (Houston; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) announced that its Singapore affiliate has completed its acquisition of one of the world’s largest aromatics facilities on Jurong Island in Singapore. The acquisition was first announced in May 2017. The facility, previously owned by…
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) announced a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that sets forth a process for Dow to acquire an additional 15% ownership interest from Saudi Aramco in…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced it has been awarded contracts by four PetroChina refineries located in Dalian, Liaoning Province; Jilin City, Jilin Province; Jinzhou, Liaoning Province; and Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygar Autonomous Region for the license, engineering design and proprietary…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has received a new order from the state-owned Brunei Fertilizer Industries. The contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new fertilizer production facility was signed on August 26, 2017 and…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) announced that it has decided to construct a new PPS (polyphenylene sulfide) compound production facility at the Hungarian site of its U.S subsidiary Zoltek Companies, Inc., the world’s largest supplier of large-tow carbon fibers.…
Changzhou National Hi-Tech District (www.czxx.org.cn) announced the signing of a project investment agreement with Sumitomo Chemical Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp). With the agreement, Sumitomo Chemical and the company’s Korean unit, Dongwoo Fine-Chem, will co-invest in a $150-million electronics materials facility…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced the completion of an investment to expand production of its mobile emissions catalysts manufacturing site in Huntsville, Alabama. The Huntsville site expansion began 18 months ago and created ten additional jobs. The expansion also…