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Westlake announces name change, reorganization into two main segments
Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston) announced that it plans to officially change its name to Westlake Corp., effective on February 18, 2022. Westlake is now organized under one unified brand name with two financial reporting segments: Housing & Infrastructure Products and…
AkzoNobel invests in scaleup of resin-manufacturing capabilities
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) plans to invest in the expansion of in-house resin manufacturing as part of the company’s Grow & Deliver strategy. The scale-up program, which is already underway, will help build resilience against supply disruptions while making…
DNV launches new joint project to promote standardization in green-hydrogen production
Together with 18 industry partners, DNV AS (Oslo, Norway) is launching a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) to enhance the standardization for reliable, safe and cost-efficient hydrogen production systems that use renewable energy-powered electrolysis to produce green hydrogen. Electrolyzers are…
Technip Energies to deliver FEED package for Encina’s advanced plastics-recycling plant
Technip Energies (Paris) announced it has signed an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC (Encina) to deliver the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the fluidized bed catalytic pyrolysis reaction section for Encina’s commercial Plastic Fluid Catalytic Cracking (PFCC) unit to…
Teijin Automotive Technologies starts up composites plant in China
Teijin Automotive Technologies, the core company of the Teijin Group's automotive composites business, announced that it has begun commercial operation of a new composites manufacturing facility in the Wujin National Hi-Tech Industrial Zone based in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China. The…
BASF announces startup of new 2-mercaptoethanol plant
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its new production plant for the intermediate 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) at the Ludwigshafen Verbund site started regular operations in the fourth quarter of 2021. After a trial run of several months, it replaces the previous…
Technip Energies awarded EPCC contract for new Petronas melamine plant
Technip Energies (Paris), as leader of a consortium with Dialog E&C Sdn. Bhd., has been awarded a significant Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract by PETRONAS Chemicals Fertiliser Kedah Sdn. Bhd., (PC FK), a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS Chemicals…
UOP Isoalky technology selected by Turkish refiner Tüpras
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) announced that Tüpras has selected ISOALKY technology to produce high-quality alkylate at Tüpraş refineries, making the Turkish company the latest to convert to the new liquid alkylation process to meet the demands for cleaner-burning fuels.…
LIST Technology announces breakthrough in textile recycling
At the International Conference on Cellulose Fibers in Cologne, LIST Technology AG (Arisdorf, Switzerland) presented world’s first Lyocell T-Shirt from 100% pulp from recycled textiles – made possible by the use of LIST KneaderReactor technology. The recycled textiles came from…
Umicore to launch new battery-recycling technology; announces ACC agreement
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the signing of an agreement with Automotive Cells Company (ACC) on battery recycling services for the needs of ACC pilot plant in Nersac, France. Umicore is a pioneer in the recycling of rechargeable batteries,…