As Chinese customers and consumers demand more eco-friendly water-based coatings and paints, AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has planned to implement a major automation upgrade at its Guangzhou manufacturing complex that will have it running at full production of exclusively water-based…
JGC Holdings Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) has received the Letter of Award for the Basrah Refinery Upgrading Project for South Refineries Co., an Iraqi oil refining company, under the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. The project includes work on several refiner units,…
Sustainable wood specialist Accsys plc (London, U.K.)and Eastman Chemical Co. (Eastman, Tenn.) have formed a joint venture (JV) company, Accoya USA LLC. The joint venture intends to construct and operate an Accoya wood production plant to serve the North American…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) and French plastics recycler Acteco will implement a project to increase the capacity for production of high-quality recycled polyolefins at Acteco’s plant in Ibi, Alicante (Spain). The recycled product from this plant will be included in…
"PROTINUS" (lat. forward, further") is the name of the project with which the biopharmaceutical company CSL Behring will significantly increase the production capacity of immunoglobulin at its site. GEA AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) received the order for the process plant, the…
Moroccan phosphate manufacturer OCP Group, alongside its German and Belgian partners, Budenheim and Prayon, are building a new plant for the production of purified phosphoric acid, through their subsidiary Euro Maroc Phosphore (EMAPHOS). This new plant will double EMAPHOS 'annual…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has selected Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., as the location for a new facility to produce its Expancel expandable microspheres. The expansion project, which was announced last year, strengthens the company’s position in expandable microspheres, which are…
In the chemical industry, the availability and reliability of your equipment is key if you want to keep producing the purest end product in a way that is also cost-effective. In many agrochemical and base chemical applications as well as…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) has signed an agreement with Global Clean Energy Holdings to purchase 2.5 million barrels of renewable diesel per year for five years from a converted California refinery starting in 2022. The renewable diesel will be sourced…
Chemical companies can drive peak performance and extend the lifecycle of their assets by making the step-change from time-based to condition-based predictive maintenance Exposed to fluctuations in global commodities markets, and typically characterized by high volumes and low margins, the…