Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC) has chosen Honeywell UOP’s (Desplains, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology to produce 550,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene at CKPC’s proposed facility in Sturgeon County near Edmonton, Alberta. CKPC is a joint venture…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) announced an investment plan of around €300 million over five years in the biosourced polyamide 11 chain. This major investment will enable the group to increase its polyamide 11 global production capacities by 50%. The project…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Shaanxi Coal Yulin Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd. has selected LyondellBasell’s Spherizone and Lupotech T technologies. The technologies will be used in the Jingbian Chemical Industrial Park in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China. “The Spherizone technology enables polypropylene producers…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded an order for the delivery of technology and process equipment for a lithium carbonate plant in South America. The order, in the value of some €20 million, has been booked in Outotec's…
Indian Oil Corp. (IndianOil), India’s flagship national oil company, and carbon recycling company LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery offgas-to-bioethanol production facility in India. LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) announced a project to double its methyl mercaptan production capacity at its Kerteh site in Malaysia to support the strong growth of the animal feed, petrochemical and refining markets in Asia, and to strengthen its world-leading…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) announced that The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde.group.com) has been selected as the lead engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor to build Braskem's new world-scale North American polypropylene (PP) production line. Linde offers comprehensive project…
SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has appointed specialist consultancy RVA Group (Hertfordshire, U.K.; www.rvagroup.org) to oversee the decommissioning, demolition and dismantling of 10 plants at its North Tees and Wilton sites. With work having already commenced in the two locations,…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has announced a project to expand production capacity of Sartomer photocure resins by over 30% at its Nansha facility in China. This new production line will help meet strong customer demand in Asia in the electronics,…
Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com), a joint venture developed by Dow and Saudi Aramco, announced that it has successfully started up its propylene glycol (PG) plant. PG is a versatile organic compound with a wide range of industrial…