The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for December 2021 (most recent available) rose compared to the previous month, extending the increases observed throughout 2021. For December 2021, increases in the Equipment and Buildings subindices more than…
ANGUS Chemical Co. (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) announced the expansion of its Sterlington, Louisiana manufacturing facility to include commercial production of Tris Amino Hydrochloride (HCl) products. Tris Amino HCl is widely used as a diagnostic reagent and as a downstream processing buffer…
Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston) announced that it plans to officially change its name to Westlake Corp., effective on February 18, 2022. Westlake is now organized under one unified brand name with two financial reporting segments: Housing & Infrastructure Products and…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) plans to invest in the expansion of in-house resin manufacturing as part of the company’s Grow & Deliver strategy. The scale-up program, which is already underway, will help build resilience against supply disruptions while making…
Together with 18 industry partners, DNV AS (Oslo, Norway) is launching a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) to enhance the standardization for reliable, safe and cost-efficient hydrogen production systems that use renewable energy-powered electrolysis to produce green hydrogen. Electrolyzers are…
Technip Energies (Paris) announced it has signed an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC (Encina) to deliver the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the fluidized bed catalytic pyrolysis reaction section for Encina’s commercial Plastic Fluid Catalytic Cracking (PFCC) unit to…
Teijin Automotive Technologies, the core company of the Teijin Group's automotive composites business, announced that it has begun commercial operation of a new composites manufacturing facility in the Wujin National Hi-Tech Industrial Zone based in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China. The…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its new production plant for the intermediate 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) at the Ludwigshafen Verbund site started regular operations in the fourth quarter of 2021. After a trial run of several months, it replaces the previous…
Technip Energies (Paris), as leader of a consortium with Dialog E&C Sdn. Bhd., has been awarded a significant Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract by PETRONAS Chemicals Fertiliser Kedah Sdn. Bhd., (PC FK), a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS Chemicals…
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) announced that Tüpras has selected ISOALKY technology to produce high-quality alkylate at Tüpraş refineries, making the Turkish company the latest to convert to the new liquid alkylation process to meet the demands for cleaner-burning fuels.…