Mobile Navigation

Latest News

Braskem joins Cyclyx plastics-recycling consortium

Cyclyx International LLC., a consortium-based feedstock management company with a mission to increase the recyclability of plastic from 10% to 90%, and Braskem have announced that Braskem S.A. (Philadelphia, Pa.) has joined Cyclyx as a member and has appointed Geoffrey…

BASF, Quantafuel and Remondis to cooperate on chemical recycling of plastic waste

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Quantafuel ASA (Oslo, Norway) and Remondis SE & Co. KG (Lünen, Germany) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly evaluate a cooperation in chemical recycling including a joint investment into a pyrolysis plant for…

Axens Acquires Flowvision

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) has signed a Share Sale and Purchase Agreement for the acquisition, on 15 April 2021, of Flowvision (Denmark, Odense), an engineering company specialized in emission abatement systems for the reduction of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) in fluegas…

DuPont invests $30 million to construct new adhesives plant in China

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it is investing approximately $30 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province in East China. The new facility will produce adhesives to serve customers in the transportation industry, primarily in support…

KBR signs engineering services agreement with National Renewable Energy Laboratory

KBR, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a contract by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the managing and operating contractor of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), to provide engineering, advisory and evaluation services. NREL is a national laboratory within…

Air Products starts up syngas supply to BPCL Kochi refinery

Air Products (Lehigh Valey, Pa.) announced that the Kochi Industrial Gas Complex is reliably supplying syngas to the Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical Project (PDPP) at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) Kochi Refinery. This is the company’s second supply contract with…

Grace licenses polypropylene technology to Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical

W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.) has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology and its UNIPOL UNIPPAC Process Control Software to Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sinochem Hongrun). The UNIPOL PP facility, located in Qingzhou, Weifang, Shandong, China will…

Kurita acquires Canadian water-treatment company Keytech

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announces that it acquired 100% of the equity interests of Keytech Water Management (Ontario, Canada), a Canadian company that manufactures and sells water treatment chemicals and equipment systems, through Kurita Canada, Inc. The eastern…

Styrolution and Trinseo partner with Recycling Technologies on commercial polystyrene recycling

INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany), Recycling Technologies (London, U.K.) and Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) have reached a significant milestone in their plans to build commercial polystyrene (PS) recycling plants in Europe. Recycling Technologies has been selected as the technology partner. These three…

Technip Energies announces completion of work on China’s largest liquid-ethylene cracker

Technip Energies (Paris, France) has provided the proprietary technology and process design for Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Chemical Co. Ltd.’s (Hengli) liquid ethylene plant in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China. The plant’s capacity is 1,500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The plant…