AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is investing €20 million to increase powder coatings capacity at its site in Como, Italy – signaling the company’s intent to strengthen its market position and sharpen its focus on greener manufacturing. The Como site –…
Sterling Auxiliaries Pvt. Ltd. (www.sterlingaux.com) and its parent company, Artek Surfin Chemicals Ltd. (Mumbai, India; www.artekchemicals.com) , a leading producer of specialty chemicals with manufacturing capabilities across four continents, have agreed to acquire the land and assets associated with Baker…
Within the framework of its net zero strategy, Total S.A. (Paris, France) will convert its Grandpuits petroleum refinery (Seine-et-Marne) into a zero-crude platform. By 2024, following an investment totaling more than €500 million, the platform will focus on four new…
Worley (North Sydney, Australia) has been awarded a contract to provide the early front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) for the first two carbon-capture units at Drax Group’s power station in North Yorkshire, U.K. Each unit is expected to capture approximately…
In a move which anticipates increasing desire from airlines to reduce emissions, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) and Shell Aviation have entered into a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply agreement. This agreement significantly increases the supply and availability of SAF for the…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) and AmSty (The Woodands, Tex.), two of the largest global producers of polystyrene, announce plans to construct a joint 100 ton per day facility in Channahon, Illinois, that will utilize the Agilyx advanced recycling technology to…
Air Liquide (Paris) will invest around 60 million euros to build an Air Separation Unit (ASU) in China’s Lingang Economic District, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. Air Liquide has been supplying industrial gases to this major Chinese industrial basin for…
BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BYC), a 50-50 joint venture between BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Sinopec, has expanded the production capacity of neopentylglycol (NPG) at the state-of-the-art Verbund site in Nanjing, China. The plant was established in 2015 with an annual…
As part of its continued focus on strategic core markets – the food, beverages and pharmaceutical industries – GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) is selling the compressor manufacturer Bock, which is in GEA’s Refrigeration Technologies division, to NORD Holding. The…
The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) rose by 0.6 percent in August, following a 1.0 percent gain in July and a 1.4 percent decline in June, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). During August,…