Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) will make a multi-million euro investment to expand production at its Joutseno chlor-alkali site in Finland. The production capacity will be expanded to ensure Kemira’s ability to address the growing need for sodium hydroxide in…
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC, a company of ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) announced an agreement with Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Co. Limited, to license ExxonMobil’s Flexicoking Technology to build a resid upgrading unit at Sinochem Hongrun’s High-End Chemical Park located…
Axalta (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.axalta.com) inaugurated its new coating manufacturing plant at Savli, Vadodara in Gujarat, India. Approximately 70 guests, including local government officials, customers, university representatives, media, and employees attended the opening ceremony, which Axalta Chairman and CEO Charlie Shaver…
Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has signed an agreement to sell its commercial tubular heat exchanger business, currently part of the Greenhouse division, to the BITZER Group. The closing of the agreement is expected on May 1, 2018. The…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Huntsman (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) jointly gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony held at the site of what will be Air Products’ new steam methane reformer (SMR) and cold box in Geismar, Louisiana. Air…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) has signed a multiyear agreement with Chevron North Sea Ltd. for the supply of polymers for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR). On the back of this agreement, Kemira initiated an expansion of its polymer capacity…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Jinneng Science & Technology Co., Ltd. for the license and engineering design of a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. The unit will…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.co.jp) announced that The Saudi Methacrylates Company (SAMAC), a 50-50 joint venture between MCC and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic; Riyadh; www.sabic.com), has successfully completed performance test of its plants for the production of methyl…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) announced that it has, in a joint venture with JV Driver, been awarded a lumpsum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from INEOS Oligomers to design and build a polyalphaolefin (PAO) unit at the INEOS…
St1 Nordic Oy (Helsinki, Finland; www.st1.eu) has completed the construction of an Etanolix pilot plant at Ubon Bio Ethanol Ltd.’s (UBE) starch and ethanol plant site in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. In the project, St1 is piloting its own technology to produce…