ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) plans to build its first, large-scale plastic waste advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, and is expected to start operations by year-end 2022. The advanced recycling operation in Baytown, Texas will be among the largest in…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it will invest around 60 billion won to construct an Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) compound plant at the site of the company's Ohio Tech Center in the United States with an annual…
In parallel with its major project to increase global capacity of bio-based polyamide 11 by 50% in Singapore, Arkema (Colombes, France) has announced the construction of a polyamide 11 powders plant on its Changshu platform in China, scheduled to come…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) and AspenTech (Bedford, Mass.; www.aspentech.com) today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement to contribute Emerson’s industrial software businesses – OSI Inc. and the Geological Simulation Software business – to AspenTech…
PKN Orlen (Płock, Poland) is investing to expand its refinery in Mažeikiai. By the end of this year, construction will start on a project to build deep-crude conversion units enabling production of larger volumes of high-margin products. According to the…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that its new liquid hydrogen plant at its La Porte, Texas facility is onstream to supply increasing demand in several customer markets. The new La Porte liquid hydrogen plant produces approximately 30 tons per…
Nouryon (Amsterdam) commissioned its latest Integrated Manufacturing Model to support the expansion of the Bracell pulp mill in Lençóis Paulista, Brazil. Nouryon’s Integrated Manufacturing Model provides customers with tailor-made onsite facilities, including the management of essential raw materials needed in…
Lukoil (Moscow, Russia) celebrated the start of work on the second stage of the Gas Processing Unit (GPU-2) at the Stavrolen petrochemical plant in the city of Budennovsk. GPU-2 is the first unit to be built under the Stavrolen integrated…
Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) and SK E&S, part of South Korea’s SK Group, announced today that the companies have formed a joint venture designed to accelerate the use of hydrogen as an alternative energy source in Asian markets. Through this…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) is pleased to announce it has engaged Kiewit Energy Group Inc. to lead the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) effort for its Net-Zero 1 Project in Lake Preston, South Dakota. Kiewit Energy Group Inc. is part…