Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) announced the proposed divestment of its Functional Polyolefins business to SK Global Chemical (Seoul, South Korea; eng.skglobalchemical.com), a subsidiary of SK, the major South Korean corporation. With this project, Arkema continues its shift towards specialty chemicals…
Aucotec AG's (Hanover, Germany; www.aucotec.com) Engineering Base (EB) platform will ensure the consistency of the plant and the digital image at Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) in the future. The leading manufacturer of oxo chemicals has decided to…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) announced that it has received orders for ROMEMBRA reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for the Shoaibah 3 Extension 2 and Shoaibah 4 Desalination Plants in Saudi Arabia, which will make the site the nation’s largest…
AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.amg-nv.com) and Shell Catalysts & Technologies (www.shell.us) have signed an agreement to form a joint venture (JV) which will be called Shell & AMG Recycling B.V. The joint venture will provide a…
Recently, at the production site of Brazilian steel producer ArcelorMittal Monlevade a 130-ton-hot-metal desulfurization station (DeS) and a new dedusting system supplied by Primetals Technologies Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) commenced operation. The desulfurization station represents the first installation of Primetals…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announced that its Catalysts business unit has intensified its collaboration with Wuxi Xiyuan to support China’s formaldehyde producers with innovative, sustainable offgas treatment. The advanced emission control solution combines a new technology from Wuxi Xiyuan…
Arlanxeo Holding B.V. (Maastricht, the Netherlands; www.arlanxeo.com) is strengthening its market position by investing in its high-performance elastomer products CR (chloroprene rubber) and NBR (nitrile butadiene rubber), laying the foundation for the further increase of production capacity in order to…
Honeywell announced that Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim A.Ş. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology to produce 457,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polymer-grade propylene for a new petrochemicals complex in Ceyhan, Turkey. Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 to John B. Goodenough, the University of Texas at Austin; M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University, State University of New York; and Akira Yoshino, Asahi…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has successfully brought on stream a new production line for ultra-high-performance polyamide 12 powders at the Mont plant in France. The group thus increases its global capacity by over 50% to support the increase in demand…