As announced earlier, Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV; www.gulfcoastgv.com), a joint venture of ExxonMobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) will be constructing a new chemical complex in Texas. Zachry Group and its partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA)…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston, Tex.; www.ascendmaterials.com), a global provider of premium chemicals, fibers and plastics, announced the completion of a multimillion-dollar reliability and capacity investment in nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) production at its Chocolate Bayou facility in Alvin, Texas. The investment…
INEOS (London, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has today announced the next step forwards in the design and build of its state-of-the-art PDH (propane dehydrogenation unit) at the centre of its €3 billion investment to be located at its Antwerp site in…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to Hyundai Chemical Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Hyundai Oilbank Co.,…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) and Neste (Espoo, FInland; www.neste.com) jointly announced the production of bio-based polypropylene and polyethylene at a commercial scale. This is said to be the first time bio-based polypropylene and bio-based low-density polyethylene were produced simultaneously…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for April 2019 increased from the previous month’s value, reversing two months of small declines. The increase in April for the overall CEPCI is a result…
Zachry Group (San Antonio, Tex.; www.zachrygroup.com) and its partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.mitsubishitoday.com) have been selected to construct a two-train polyethylene unit that will be part of a new chemical complex near Corpus Christi, Texas. The…
Greentown Labs (Somerville, Mass.; www.greentownlabs.com), the largest cleantech startup incubator in North America, and BASF Corp. North America (Florham Park, N.J.; www.basf.com) one of the world's leading chemical companies, are now accepting applications for the Greentown Labs Circularity Challenge, a…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Sichuan Lutianhua Co., Ltd. (Lutianhua; China; www.sclth.com) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop a pilot production plant, that will significantly reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency in producing dimethyl ether…
On June 18, 2019, and following the scheduled two-year construction period, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) officially commissioned its second complex for the production of MetAmino (DL-methionine) and strategically important precursors in Singapore. “Our methionine complex on Jurong Island,…