Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) has decided to double the production capacity of its affiliate Synova to meet growing market demand for high-performance recycled materials. By early 2021, Normandy-based Synova, a French leader in its sector, will produce 40,000 ton/yr…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has successfully brought on stream, and on schedule, a new 90,000-ton/yr acrylic acid reactor at its Clear Lake, Texas site. Equipped with the latest production technologies, this new reactor replaces two decommissioned reactors, which each had…
S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. (Houston; www.sbec.com) announced it has been awarded a lump sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by an affiliate of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) for Enterprise’s second propane dehydrogenation plant (PDH 2)…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) will open a Digital Factory in Paris in early 2020 that will bring together up to 300 developers, data scientists and other experts to accelerate the Group’s digital transformation. Total’s goal is to leverage the…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) is partnering with ArcelorMittal in the first industrial scale demonstration plant to capture carbon gas from the steelmaking process and recycle it into chemicals, specifically advanced bioethanol. In this project, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction…
Brussels S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will lift production capacity of its Tecnoflon FKM peroxide curable fluoroelastomer by nearly a third at its plant in Spinetta Marengo, Italy, to serve ongoing strong demand growth for high performance sealing applications in the…
Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertech.com) will provide a processing plant integrating HPD crystallization systems designed to produce phosphorus fertilizer. To produce pure crystalline fertilizers, the ALKIMIA Group, a Tunisian chemical holding company specialized in the production of phosphate salts for industrial applications,…
Velocys Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Velocys plc (Velocys), has signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from Velocys’ planned Bayou Fuels biomass-to-fuels project in Natchez, Mississippi,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to engage in a joint feasibility study to further evaluate a collaboration for the establishment of a chemical complex in Mundra, Gujarat,…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has announced a new longterm agreement with Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI) under which Air Liquide Munay Tech Gases, a joint venture between Air Liquide and national oil company KazMunayGas (KMG), will build, own and operate a…