Solvay’s (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) Performance Polyamides business announced the start of production of engineering plastics in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. This new facility is dedicated to the production of the Technyl range and was built within a few months…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) shapes its hydrogen peroxide business more customer-oriented and reacts to the increased need of active oxygens. This also includes a more efficient and faster supply to the customer. Because of its effective cleaning and…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) signed a long-term agreement for Praxair to design, build, own, and operate a new syngas-processing plant at BASF’s facility in Geismar, Louisiana. The new plant, which will start up…
The Specialty Chemicals Market Volume Index fell 0.3 percent in September, reflecting the lingering effects of Hurricane Harvey on market volumes, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The decline follows a virtually flat performance in August.…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been selected by Teck Resources Ltd. (Vancouver, Canada) and Aurubis AG (Hamburg, Germany) to perform the pre-feasibility study (PFS) for a proposed copper cathode production facility in Peru. Under the terms of…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) celebrated the opening of a new production plant for biocatalyzed acrylamide (BioACM) at its site in Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park, Nanjing, China. With this investment in its wholly owned BioACM plant in Nanjing, BASF is…
Velocys Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com) has announced that it has signed a site option agreement with Adams County in the State of Mississippi for its first U.S. biorefinery to be located in Natchez, Mississippi. Velocys has been offered economic…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) recently entered into a new joint venture with Sinopec (China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.) in Beijing, for the takeover and optimization of three existing ASUs (Air Separation Units) and the building of a new nitrogen production unit,…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of a Chemical Island in Brazil to support a major project for Brazilian forestry company Fibria. The world’s leading producer of eucalyptus pulp from planted forests, Fibria has…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded an order for the delivery of minerals processing technology packages by Lundin Gold for their greenfield project Fruta Del Norte in Ecuador. The contract value booked in Outotec's 2017 third quarter order…