DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences (Wilmington, Del.) and Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced an exclusive partnership for the development and commercialization of DuPont’s enzymatic polymerization-based polysaccharide platform technology for certain applications. The collaboration will bring new, biobased and inherently biodegradable product…
Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded a landmark contract by PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel to modernize one of the company’s two existing smelting lines at their Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant in Norilsk, Russia. The contract value is approximately EUR…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that the Amur Gas Chemical Complex project, being implemented by Sibur Holding PJSC (Moscow, Russia), the largest integrated petrochemicals company in Russia, has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a new facility. The process technology will…
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Luxembourg) announced that it has completed a multi-year upgrade to its Qingdao, China facility. A new, state-of-the-art, cogeneration unit was installed, which boosts the site’s sustainability by recovering more energy from the facility. “This is an…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for October 2020 (the most recent data available) increased compared to the previous month’s value, after the final September value was downwardly revised. The October increase continues a period of…
Asahi Songwon Colors Ltd. (Gujarat, India) commenced commercial operations at the Dahej, India plant operated by its joint venture with Tennants Textile Colours Ltd., Asahi Tennants Color. The Dahej plant will produce red and yellow pigments. The installed capacity at…
BASF SE(Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Eramet Group (Paris, France) have signed an agreement to jointly assess the development of a state-of-the-art nickel and cobalt hydrometallurgical refining complex. Such a development would include a High-Pressure Acid Leaching (HPAL) plant and a Base…
Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) and Braskem S.A. (Philadelphia, Pa.) announced the initiation of a feasibility study to explore the development and construction of an advanced plastics recycling project in North America. The project aims to examine an efficient pathway to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that the implementation of the methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) capacity increase program for production facilities at the company’s Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana, is progressing on schedule. Over time, BASF targets to double the capacity…
To meet accelerating demand for robust clinical supply chain services throughout Europe, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) has expanded its pharma services footprint with two new state-of-the-art facilities in Rheinfelden and Weil am Rhein, Germany. The new sites will…