The Specialty Chemicals Market Volume Index, a tool created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), progressed further during the first quarter of 2016, rising 0.1 percent on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis in February after a…
Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.ecolab.com), a global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, has changed the name of Nalco — its water and process services business — to Nalco Water (nalco.ecolab.com). The new name more…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a project of Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited (CFCL), a major private sector fertilizer producer in India, to construct a large-scale fertilizer complex in Kota, Rajasthan, India.…
MEGlobal (Dubai, United Arab Emirates; www.meglobal.biz), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equate Petrochemical Co. (www.equate.com), plans to construct a new world-scale monoethylene glycol (MEG) manufacturing facility at Dow’s (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) Oyster Creek site in Freeport, Texas. The new Oyster…
Chiyoda Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com) subsidiary, Chiyoda Singapore (PTE) Limited, has been awarded an offshore engineering and procurement contract for Indonesia Copper Smelter (ICS) project by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), which is an affiliate of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (Phoenix, Ariz.).…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Saint-Gobain India Pvt Ltd. (SGIPL) to provide civil engineering services for the proposed third float-glass-line capacity expansion of SGIPL’s World Glass Complex in Chennai, India. SGIPL is…
Zymergen Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.; www.zymergen.com) and Arzeda (Seattle, Wash.; www.arzeda.com) announced a multi-year agreement to develop strains and processes to manufacture novel, high utility molecules and materials utilizing Arzeda’s pathway and enzyme design and Zymergen’s strain construction capabilities. “The development…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik) has begun to build a plant form the production of organically modified specialty silicones in Shanghai, China. The project is part of a global investment initiative, with a first production expansion commissioned in…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencu (EPA) announced that $8 million in Federal grant funding will be available during 2016 and 2017 to support pollution prevention (P2) projects that aim to significantly reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous materials, water…
The annual value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) was calculated to be 556.8, down significantly from the annual value for 2014. The monthly preliminary value for the January 2016 CEPCI (the most recent available) continued to fall from…