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Eastman launches global capacity-expansion efforts for alkyl amines

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) has announced that multiple debottlenecking projects underway to continually increase capacity to meet growing global demand for alkyl amines. The projects are taking place at Eastman’s global integrated assets located in North America, Europe…

Enterprise Selects Honeywell Technology For Second PDH Plant

Honeywell announced that Enterprise Products Partners L.P. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology in its second propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant, called “PDH 2.” Located near Mont Belvieu, Texas, PDH 2 will produce 750,000 metric tons…

Saft to Build the Largest Lithium-Ion Energy Storage System in the Nordic Countries

Saft (Levallois-Perret, France; www.saftbatteries.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), has won an order for three Intensium Max 20 High Energy containers from TuuliWatti, the Finnish wind developer and operator. The lithium-ion energy storage system (ESS) will…

Sadara to supply EO and PO to Baker Hughes chemical plant in Saudi Arabia

Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara; www.sadara.com) and Baker Hughes (Houston; www.bakerhughes.com) have signed agreements through which Sadara will supply feedstock chemicals to Baker Hughes’ new chemical manufacturing facility in PlasChem Park. Under the agreements’ terms, Sadara will supply ethylene oxide (EO)…

Lenzing begins construction on world’s largest lyocell production plant

The Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria; www.lenzing.com) officially launched construction work in Thailand to build the world’s largest lyocell production plant.   Following the approval granted to the project in June 2019 and the successful signing of the Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management…

Siemens Gas and Power to build electrolysis hydrogen plant at Salzgitter steelworks in Germany

Steelmaker Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH (SZFG; www.salzgitter-ag.com) has awarded the contract to build a 2.2 megawatt Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolysis plant to Siemens Gas and Power, marking an important step towards hydrogen-based steelmaking. The plant is due to commence operation…

Showa Denko licenses VAM process technology in China

Showa Denko (SDK; Tokyo; www.sdk.co.jp) has decided to license its technology to produce vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) to Shenghong Refining Petrochemical (Lian Yun Gang) Co., Ltd., (SRP) China, under a formal alliance agreement between SDK and engineering firm KBR, Inc.…

Chemetry and TechnipFMC to collaborate on licensing novel production process for propylene oxide

Chemetry (Moss Landing, Calif.; www.chemetry.com) and TechnipFMC (Houston; www.technipfmc.com) have signed an exclusive cooperation agreement for the licensing and engineering of Chemetry's eShuttle technology for the production of Propylene Oxide (PO). PO is a commodity chemical produced worldwide and used…

Johnson Matthey acquires silicon-anode material assets from 3M

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London; www.matthey.com) has acquired the full intellectual property rights to a portfolio of silicon-alloy-based anode materials from 3M Company. The acquisition is a further step in JM’s longterm strategy to apply its world class scientific expertise…

Holistic energy concept increases efficiency of paper mills in Germany

The current increase of packaging and pulp demand in the fiber industry is accompanied by numerous challenges, including fluctuating costs of energy and raw materials. Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) energy-efficient concepts and solutions are designed to help the paper…