Messer Americas, a part of Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany), and North Star BlueScope Steel (NSBS) have entered into an agreement to increase supply of gaseous oxygen in Delta, Ohio. Messer, a trusted supplier of gases to NSBS for…
Plastic Energy (London, U.K.) is collaborating with ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) on an advanced recycling project in France that will convert post-consumer plastic waste into raw materials for the manufacturing of virgin-quality polymers. Based on current plans, the project is…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) announced further investments to strengthen its commitment to being the world’s foremost emulsion polymers and vinyl acetate producer through facility expansions, new unit builds and key debottlenecking projects in Europe and Asia. The announced expansion plans,…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced an agreement to supply cutting-edge technologies, equipment and advisory services to the world’s first methanol plant to harness energy from the wind, the Haru Oni project in Patagonia, Chile. The Haru Oni project, which…
Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) announced that its subsidiary Avantium Renewable Polymers (Avantium RNP) has signed two additional conditional offtake agreements for the supply of polyethylene furanoate (PEF) resin to manufacture bottles and films, bringing the total now to four…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an award for its ethylbenzene technology from a customer in Jiangsu Province, China. Once complete, the unit will produce 508,000 metric ton per year (m.t./yr) of ethylbenzene via the EBOne technology. "We look forward to continuing…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Nel ASA (Oslo, Norway) have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the intent to offer customers complete renewable electricity to ammonia and methanol solutions. Solutions will be based on globally leading technologies from…
After a solid start to the year, winter storms dampened U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes in February, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Volumes fell 4.1% in February, bringing activity back to 3Q 2020 levels. Of…
The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI), fell 3.6% in February, following a 0.7% gain in January and a 1.3% gain in December, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). During February, chemical output fell in…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudia Arabia) and Linde (Munich, Germany) have signed a joint agreement to develop and demonstrate solutions for electrically heated steam-cracker furnaces. The partners have already jointly worked on concepts to use renewable electricity instead…