You have to spend money to make money. Never has the old adage been truer than in today’s world of Industry 4.0, smart engineering advances, and fiercely competitive markets. In the past, to achieve high-quality separation and high purity of…
INEOS Phenol (London; www.ineos.com) has broken ground at its world-scale cumene investment in Marl, Germany. The new unit is scheduled to be completed in 2021 and will produce 750,000 metric tons per year of cumene (m.t./yr). Its location will help…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) announced that Toray Industries (India) Pvt. Ltd. began manufacturing polyamide (PA) and polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) at a new facility in September. Key applications for these resins include components for automotive and electrical and electronic.…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) has completed the acquisition from Dow (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) of latex production facilities and related infrastructure at Rheinmunster, Germany. The transaction includes full ownership and operational control of both latex production facilities at Rheinmunster, as well…
Eurochem Group AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.eurochemgroup.com) announced the signing of an early works contract for a potential new urea and ammonia production facility, subject to further investment plan approval, at Kingisepp, northwest Russia, with Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com).…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) is collaborating with Kaisei Inc. (Murakami, Japan) to commercialize bio-based polypropylene (bio-PP). Japan's Ministry of the Environment has adopted Mitsui Chemicals' bio-PP pilot project to build a system to recycle plastic and other resources…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) and Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Houston; www.enterpriseproducts.com) announced that their respective affiliates have executed long-term contracts that support construction of Enterprise’s second propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant (PDH 2). PDH 2 will have the…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded a contract to supply on-site nitrogen to Samwha Capacitor's new multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) plant being built adjacent to its existing plant in Yongin, South Korea. An affiliate of Samwha Capacitor Group—Korea's leading…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.repsol.com) signed a purchase agreement for a 40% stake in the Singapore-based lubricants manufacturer United Oil Company, which will manufacture and supply Repsol’s brand of products in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. The agreement will allow…
OCI N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.oci.nl) and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.com) announced the completion of their transaction to combine ADNOC’s fertilizer business into OCI’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nitrogen fertilizer platform, creating a world-leading joint…