McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced the recent successful startup of the world's largest catalytic dehydrogenation plant, which is located at Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co., Ltd.'s site in Liaoning Province, China, and uses McDermott's Lummus CATOFIN technology. This single-train…
Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has decided to further expand its production capacities for Tricyclodecanedimethanol (TCD) Alcohol to meet market demand. Following a successful initial feasibility study, the Board of Directors approved the capacity increase investment for TCD…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has announced plans to add three new production lines at its Changzhou powder coatings plant in China – the company’s largest facility of its kind in the world. The €3 million investment will support…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) and Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) have agreed to combine Metso Minerals and Outotec to create a leading company in process technology, equipment and services serving the minerals, metals and aggregates industries. The Combined Company,…
Tata Chemicals Ltd. (TCL; Mumbai, India; www.tatachemicals.com) announced that Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) plans to build the U.K.’s first industrial-scale Carbon Capture & Utilization (CCU) Demonstration Plant, which will reduce its carbon emissions, whilst ensuring a secure, sustainable supply of…
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW; Washington, D.C.; www.endplasticwaste.org) today welcomed 12 new companies from across the plastics value chain, including Chinese state-owned Sinopec. The new members expand both the global footprint of the Alliance and the participation of…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has announced a debottlenecking project at its hydrogen peroxide plant in Jemeppe-sur-Sambre (Belgium), which has increased of H2O2 production. Further expansions of capacity are planned in Bernburg (Germany) and Voikkaa (Finland). These investments meet the…
INEOS Phenol (London; www.ineos.com) has announced it is to build a world-scale cumene unit in Marl Germany, to be completed in 2021. The new unit will use existing pipeline connections between INEOS’ phenol and acetone production site in Gladbeck, the…
DuPont Clean Technologies (www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) has been awarded contracts to supply Shenghong Petrochemical Group Co., Limited (Shenghong) with a STRATCO alkylation technology license, engineering, and proprietary equipment. Shenghong is undertaking a project to design and construct a new alkylation unit as…
Following a construction period of two years, a joint venture (JV) between Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and the Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has commissioned the world’s largest fermentative manufacturing operation using natural marine algae in…