With Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) having completed key front-end engineering design (FEED) work and cost guidance, Koch Fertilizer is undertaking a $90-million upgrade of its Nebraska nitrogen plant, looking to boost output while improving its reliability and environmental…
The first tests to produce renewable petroleum from sawdust have just been carried out at Preem AB’s (Stockholm, Sweden) refinery in Lysekil. Work has now started to process 50,000 tons of pyrolysis oil at the plant. The renewable raw material…
Indorama Ventures Xylenes & PTA, LLC (IVXP), a subsidiary of global chemical producer Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand), announced a new PNDA (Purified 2,6-Naphthalene Dicarboxylic Acid) production unit, making IVXP the world’s largest PNDA producer. The unit is located…
Braven Environmental, a pioneering technology provider in the advanced plastics recycling sector, announced that it has entered into a long-term agreement with Chevron Phillips Chemical L.P. (CP Chem; The Woodlands, Tex.) to supply its pyrolysis-derived feedstock, Braven PyChem. Braven’s proprietary…
Casale SA (Lugano, Switzerland) has been selected by Messrs. Enter Engineering Pte. to provide the technology and design of a new 495,000-ton/yr ammonia plant to be set up in Yangiyer, near Samarkand, Sirdarya region, Uzbekistan. Furthermore, Casale will have the…
SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall AB have now produced the world’s first hydrogen-reduced sponge iron at a pilot scale. The technological breakthrough in the HYBRIT initiative captures around 90% of emissions in conjunction with steelmaking and is a decisive step on…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Ultramid Ccycled polymers, manufactured in Freeport, Texas, have received validation by Underwriters Laboratories (UL). Under UL 2809, Environmental Claim Validation Procedure (ECVP), Ultramid Ccycled grades, using multiple pre- and post-consumer waste streams, are…
Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) has announced that it is in an exclusive negotiation with Ultrapar Participações S.A. for the possible purchase of the business of Ultrapar’s subsidiary Oxiteno S.A. Indústria e Comércio in Brazil. IVL would like to…
U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.7% in May and are now above the pre-winter storm levels of January, according to data from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Activity remains off from pre-pandemic levels, ACC said. Of…
Lukoil (Moscow, Russia) recently commenced commissioning of the PENEX isomerisation unit at the Nizhny Novgorod refinery, in the city of Kstovo. The unit will allow to apply low-temperature isomerisation to light naphtha in order to produce high-octane blending fuel. The…