LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced the successful startup of Ulsan PP Co., Ltd.’s polypropylene production facility. The facility, located in the southeastern port city of Ulsan, South Korea, is one of the largest of its kind in Asia, designed to…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, LLC to sell the rubber additives (including Crystex insoluble sulfur and Santoflex antidegradants) and other product lines and related assets and technology of…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., in conjunction with the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta, announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build a landmark new net-zero hydrogen energy complex that will…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has agreed to start studying a possible business alliance with Rever Holdings Corp., a major Japanese integrated recycling company engaged in the management of scrap metal and other recyclable waste from used cars and home…
NextChem, a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy), and Paul Wurth, a company of the SMS Group and leading technology provider for the steel industry, will join forces to promote the combined use of electrolysis and syngas production in the iron and…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has received an order for the engineering and delivery of key equipment for the expansion of a precious-metals recycling plant. Metso Outotec’s equipment delivery consists of a direct-current (DC) furnace with feeding equipment and process…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston) has expanded production capacity for HiDura long-chain polyamides in its Greenwood, S.C., plant. The multi-million-dollar expansion will help the company meet growing demand for its new product line. Launched in Nov. 2020, Ascend’s HiDura PA610 and…
Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced plans to build an integrated methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) distillation and prepolymers facility at its world-scale manufacturing site in Freeport, Texas. This investment supports increasing demand for downstream polyurethane systems products and advances Dow’s leading positions…
Chemical companies are high-value targets for cybercriminals, but strong foundational security controls can help prevent or limit the damage from an array of cyberattacks Companies in the chemical process industries (CPI) face an ever-evolving cybersecurity threat landscape. Malicious actors, be…
MAN Energy Solutions SE (Augsburg, Germany) and the thyssenkrupp business unit Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) are looking to drive forward the development, testing and marketing of autonomous turbomachinery systems operation for the nitric acid production industry and have signed a cooperation…