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Grace licenses Unipol PP technology to GAIL India

W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has licensed its UNIPOL®PP Process Technology to GAIL India Ltd. for a new polypropylene (PP) plant. The plant will designed…

Ineos and Wintershall announce carbon-storage pilot project in the Danish North Sea

INEOS Energy, Wintershall Dea and a consortium of 29 companies, research institutes and universities, have today signed an agreement to support the next phase of the Greensand pilot project to demonstrate the safe and permanent storage of CO2. The Greensand…

Evonik establishes standalone company for superabsorbent materials

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has established its former Baby Care Business Line as an independent company. Evonik Superabsorber GmbH in Germany, and Evonik Superabsorber LLC in the USA, took over the business on July 1, 2021. The new companies…

Doosan wins sewage treatment contract in the U.K.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (Changwon, South Korea) announced that its U.K. subsidiary Doosan Enpure has recently been awarded the contract for the Guildford Sewage Treatment Works Relocation project by Thames Water, UK’s largest water and wastewater services company. Doosan…

Proman and Global Energy partner to develop green-methanol plant in Scotland

Global Energy Group Ltd. (GEG; Aberdeen, Scotland) has entered into an agreement with integrated energy company Proman (Wollerau, Switzerland) to develop a renewable-power-to-methanol plant utilizing local sources of captured carbon dioxide to be located at the Nigg Oil Terminal in…

Linde to build green-hydrogen plant in Austria to supply semiconductor manufacturer Infineon

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a long-term agreement with Infineon Technologies for the on-site production and storage of high-purity green hydrogen, alongside the supply of other industrial gases. It will be the first time that green…

Toyo awarded polypropylene plant project in Japan

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Tokyo) has been awarded a contract for a project to construct a polypropylene plant from Prime Polymer Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (Tokyo). TOYO will carry out…

Toray adds ABS production capacity with new plant in Malaysia

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has boosted Toray Group’s worldwide production and distribution capacities of its TOYOLAC Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) resin transparent grade, through its latest facilities set up at Prai Industrial Park, Penang, Malaysia. The plant set up…

Ineos Styrolution and LyondellBasell join Cyclyx recycling consortium

Cyclyx International, a consortium-based feedstock management company with a mission to increase the recycling rate of plastic from 10% to 90%, has announced that LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) have joined Cyclyx as founding members. LyondellBasell…

Process heater manufacturer expands with new office facility

Process heater manufacturer Exotherm Corp. has moved to a new office located in Magnolia, Texas. This new office location has increased the company's office space from 4,500 sq feet to 7,200 sq feet with the ability to expand further to…