ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) announced that construction of the new linear alpha olefins (LAO) manufacturing unit at its Baytown, Texas, integrated petrochemical complex is progressing and targeting commercial start up in mid-2023. When fully operational, the new facility will have the…
Arlanxeo announced plans to increase annual production capacity by 15% at its ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) plant in Changzhou, China. Leveraging on its industry-leading R&D capability at the Changzhou plant, the operations efficiency advancement project will support the production…
PureCycle Technologies, Inc. will break ground on its second U.S. plastic-waste purification facility in Augusta, Georgia, which will enable PureCycle to expand production of its ultra-pure recycled (UPR) resin. Initial construction activities will begin immediately following the groundbreaking ceremony. This…
Orbia’s Fluorinated Solutions brand Koura Global, announced that it has signed a three-party Letter of Intent with Foosung Co. Ltd. and the Mayor of Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland to develop a new production plant in the region to meet the growing demand…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo) and JSR Corp. (Tokyo) announce the successful conclusion of a field test in which artificial intelligence (AI) was used to autonomously run a chemical plant for 35 days, said to be a world-first achievement. This test…
An official foundation stone-laying ceremony of the new propylene plant of MOL Petrochemicals Co. Ltd. (Tiszaújváros, Hungary; www.molgroupchemicals.com), took place in Tiszaújváros, Hungary today. The plant is built as a greenfield investment for 65 billion HUF and will produce 100,000…
Specialty chemicals company Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) today announced that it has joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI). The aim of the RCI is to support and accelerate the transition from the use of fossil carbon to the use of…
Algerian companies Asmidal, a subsidiary of Sonatrach (Hydra, Algeria), and Manal, along with Chinese companies Wuhuan Engineering Co. Ltd. and Yunnan Tian’An Chemical Co. Ltd., signed a Shareholders' Pact for the creation of a joint-stock company under Algerian law to…
The value of the 2021 Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index (CEPCI), calculated as an average of the monthly values for the year, was higher than the annual value for 2020 by a large margin, as the CEPCI has risen each…
SPEC Energy DMCC will use a range of Honeywell UOP process technologies at its refinery to convert low-value vacuum gasoil and vacuum residue into high value products such as gasoline and alkylate. Phase one of the project includes the installation…