Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Luxembourg; www.orioncarbons.com) announced that it has completed construction of a new Carbon Black production line at its plant in Yeosu, South Korea, to produce specialty products. The line started production on November 23rd and has begun…
Veolia North America (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) has announced a significant investment for a new “debottlenecking” project at its Burnside, La., sulfur regeneration facility, which provides merchant sulfuric acid regeneration services to refineries and produces various sulfur-based products. The project investment…
The U.S. chemical industry is riding a global wave of growth as the world’s major economies experience an upswing for the first time in a decade. Increased output and accelerating growth rates that surpass the previous twenty-year average will help…
Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com) today announced an agreement with Xuzhou HaiDing Chemical Technology Co. Ltd. to develop a custom-built Catofin catalyst and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in cooperation with its technology partner CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com). The project includes…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) announced plans to build a new lubricants blending plant in China to help meet the country’s rapidly growing demand for high quality lubricants. The new plant will be BP’s third lubricants blending plant in China and,…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Bedford, Mass.; www.aspentech.com) has acquired the Cipher Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) cloud-native software and edge connectivity assets of RtTech Software Inc. of New Brunswick, Canada. The acquisition strengthens AspenTech’s asset optimization strategy by providing sophisticated cloud…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced it has been awarded a contract for more than $95 million by Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery (SASREF). The scope of work includes the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) for SASREF's modernization and expansion…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than €4 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Levasil CC-branded product line of patented surface-modified colloidal silica. The expansion will help meet growing customer demand and will…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that its new plant in the Pukou Economic Development Zone (PKEDZ), Nanjing, eastern China, has come on-stream to supply ultra-high purity gases to its customer in the park. The facility also provides liquid…
Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) and carbon recycling company LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have made significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to new products. Today, many MSW streams are incinerated or super-heated to produce…