Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) is expanding the capacity of its high-performance materials compounding plant in Evansville, Indiana. With the investment, DSM will enhance the site to produce the next generation of advanced materials, including polyamides and bio-based…
Vow ASA (Lysaker, Norway; www.vowasa.com), through its subsidiary ETIA, has been awarded a contract to provide a pyrolysis testing unit for processing of waste plastics and polymers for Unipetrol in the Czech Republic. Unipetrol is a part of PKN ORLEN group,…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.co.jp) will acquire two Swiss engineering plastics recyclers, Minger Kunststofftechnik AG and Minger Plastic AG (collectively, the Minger Group, headquartered in Appenzell, Switzerland), through its group company Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (MCAM; Head office: Zurich,…
Avantium (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com) has sold its bioaromatics patent portfolio to The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). The sale includes both patents and know-how for technologies that produce bio-derived products for polymers and coatings. These technologies lie…
Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) has announced its continues progress on a planned 400,000-ton adiponitrile (ADN) plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP). This $1.2 billion USD (8.4 billion RMB) investment will help meet the growing demand for nylon 6,6…
Honeywell says that PKN ORLEN (www.orlen.pl) plans to use the UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.: www.uop.com) Q-Max and Phenol 3G technologies to produce 200,000 metric tons per annum of phenol at its facility in Płock, Poland. UOP is providing a license…
At the Connected Plant Conference being held this week in Atlanta, KROHNE is showcasing its OPTIMASS 6400 twin bent tube Coriolis mass flowmeter in booth #108. The event, presented by Chemical Engineering and POWER, runs from February 25-27, 2020 at…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose 0.4 percent in February, on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis following a 0.7 percent gain in January. On a…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa; www.airproducts.com) announced that Air Products Qudra, a joint venture (JV) between Air Products and Qudra Energy, in collaboration with the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, held a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the start of…
Collaboration partners Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) and ENGIE have received $995,000 in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) towards their feasibility study, which is examining the potential to make renewable hydrogen technology work in industrial-scale facilities.…