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DuPont to acquire membrane business from Evoqua Water Technologies

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) has signed an agreement to acquire the Memcor business, including ultrafiltration and membrane biofiltration technologies, from Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2019, subject to customary closing conditions…

Wacker starts up pyrogenic silica plant in Tennessee

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) brought a plant for manufacturing pyrogenic silica on stream at its site in Charleston, Tennessee. Representatives from the government and from business attended the ceremony. The facility has a production capacity of 13,000 metric…

PTA production: Lowering OPEX without compromising on quality

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 breaks ground in Marl for world-scale cumene plant

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 starts production of PA and PBT at new compounding plant in India

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 completes acquisition of Dow’s latex manufacturing assets in Rheinmunster, Germany

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 and Maire Tecnimont sign early works agreement for new urea and ammonia complex in Russia

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 begins project aimed at commercializing bio-based polypropylene

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…

Enterprise Products to build new PDH plant in Mont Belvieu with LyondellBasell propane supply

 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 to supply nitrogen for Samwha Capacitor’s new plant in South Korea

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…