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…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term contract to provide Bayer MaterialScience with large quantities of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. To meet this customer’s needs, Air Liquide will invest around €100 million in a H2 and CO production…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to perform the front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the gasification and power island of the Hydrogen Energy California (HECA) project. Funded in part by the U.S.…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing in its production site for high-performance rubber in Port Jérôme, France. The Group plans to invest some EUR 30 million by 2015 to further enhance productivity and energy efficiency. Lanxess produces the high-performance…
A new ethylene dimerization unit, using Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) AlphaButoltechnology will be installed at the petrochemical complex of GAIL (India) Ltd at Pata. The unit will have a production capacity 20,000 ton/yr of high purity 1-butene. Based on homogeneous…
Normal 0 Through its Design for the Environment (DfE) Alternatives Assessment Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) released a final alternatives assessment report identifying eight safer alternatives to nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), which are widely used in…