Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) has announced the commercial startup of its olefins gas cracker plant at Indorama Ventures Olefins LLC(IVOL) in Westlake, Louisiana. The site has an ethylene production capacity of 440,000 metric tons per…
Sustainable fuels company Velocys plc (Oxford, U.K.; www.velocys.com) announced the appointment of Worley (North Sydney, Australis; www.worley.com) to manage the delivery of its fully integrated technology package. Worley is now the partner in the development of pre-feasibility, feasibility and FEED…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has announced that it is working to increase supply of its high-level disinfectant Rely+On Virkon, which is thought to be effective against the coronavirus. The product is used for hard surface and equipment disinfection. Anneliese…
DOMO Chemicals (Ghent, Belgium; www.domochemicals.com) has completed its acquisition of Solvay’s Performance Polyamides Business in Europe. This Business includes Engineering Plastics operations in France and Poland; High Performance Fibers in France; Polymer and Intermediates operations in France, Spain and Poland.…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) will continue to power its BU Additives production facility in Knapsack, Germany, solely with 100% renewable electricity following the site’s successful pilot switch one year ago. This underlines Clariant’s continued efforts of shifting to the use…
Chris Benson, principal artificial intelligence strategist for global aerospace, defense, and security giant Lockheed Martin, will give the opening keynote presentation at the Connected Plant Conference 2020, which will take place February 25 to 27, 2020, at the Westin Peachtree…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) has announced preliminary plans to expand its emulsion polymers derivatives business to extend the value of its global acetyl chain. These focused investments allow Celanese to implement integrated capital deployments to capture disproportionate growth in…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) is continuing its growth acceleration plans with an agreement to acquire the carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) business of J.M. Huber Corp. (Edison, N.J.; www.huber.com). The transaction will significantly broaden Nouryon’s portfolio of products in CMC, a…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) and Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) announced that they have signed an agreement for Celanese to acquire Nouryon’s redispersible polymer powders business offered under the Elotex brand (Elotex business). As part of the acquisition, Celanese…
During French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the Saft Nersac plant near Angoulême, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), through its affiliate Saft, and PSA with Opel, are announcing their plan to combine their know-how to develop…