Dinnissen Process Technology B.V. (Sevenum, the Netherlands; www.dinnissen.nl) continues to grow. The company’s reputation is growing throughout the world due to its solid, sustainable and, in particular, innovative solutions which repeatedly surprise the market. It all started in 1948, when…
BASF New Business GmbH (BNB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German chemical group BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Japanese ceramics manufacturer NGK Insulators Ltd. (NGK) today announced the conclusion of a sales partnership agreement (SPA). The agreement gives BNB non-exclusive…
Total SA (Paris; www.total.com) has started up production from the Culzean gas condensate field, located on Block 22/25a, 230 kilometers off the coast of Aberdeen, U.K. With a plateau production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), Culzean…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced the strengthening of its leadership in high-performance specialty polymers with the operational launch of a new production line for Arnitel in Emmen, the Netherlands. The capacity will be expanded by 20% and…
Air Liquide China (Shanghai; www.airliquide.com/china) has entered into an agreement to sell to its client Fujian Shenyuan New Materials Co. Ltd, its subsidiary Air Liquide Fuzhou Co. Ltd. which owns and operates the integrated gas complex in Fujian (Southeast China).…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.; www.woodplc.com) has been awarded a new contract by Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries Co. (DRPIC) to provide FEED (front-end engineering design) for a proposed onshore petrochemicals facility at the Special Economic Zone Area Duqm (SEZAD) in…
DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DuPont, Wilmington DE, www.dupot.com), announced on June 3, its debut as an independent company following the successful separation of its Agriculture Division through the spin-off of Corteva, Inc. (Corteva). The company was formerly known as DowDuPont…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com) has conducted a running test of the prototype EX ROVR, a plant inspection robot with explosion protection features to limit the danger of the robot itself igniting an explosion or fire from…
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany: www.wacker.com) inaugurated a new production line for silicone elastomers at its Zhangjiagang site in China. With an annual capacity of several thousand metric tons, the facility will help support Wacker’s future growth path in…
More than half of consumers said they would pay more for sustainable products designed to be reused or recycled, according to results of a survey from Accenture (Dublin, Ireland; www.accenture.com). The survey of 6,000 consumers in 11 countries across North America,…