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Air Liquide Engineering & Construction and Mitsubishi Chemical announced a new partnership
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) has signed a cooperation agreement with Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo. Japan; www.m-chemical.co.jp) to license MCC’s butene-to-crude-butadiene technology used in the petrochemical industry. MCC has developed this state-of-the art oxidative…
Toyo awarded petrochemical project in Indonesia
Toyo Engineering Group (Toyo; Chiba, www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a construction project from PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP), Indonesia's largest petrochemical company. This project involves construction of a polyethylene production unit of HDPE, LLDPE and mLLDPE with a total…
Eastman announces projects to increase CHDM production capacity
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) announced multiple projects to increase CHDM (1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol) capacity at its Kingsport, Tennessee, manufacturing facility. The series of debottlenecks and expansion projects will occur over the next 18 months and will increase capacity by 15,000…
Sumitomo’s propylene oxide technology selected for new PTTGC project
Sumitomo Chemical Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) has agreed to license it process technology for production of propylene oxide (PO) to PTT Global Chemical Co. (PTTGC; Bangkok, Thailand; www.pttgcgroup.com) for a new petrochemicals project PTTGC is currently implementing. With the aim…
Showa Denko to establish liquiefied CO2 plant at Oita petrochemical complex
Showa Denko Gas Products Co., Ltd. (SGP), a consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) headquartered in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, has decided to establish a new plant to produce liquefied carbon dioxide (CO2) gas in Showa…
Perstorp plans upgrades for U.K. caprolactone plant
Perstorp Holding AB (Malmö, Sweden; www.perstorp.com) securing the future of its Caprolactone business through a significant investment to upgrade its original monomer Capa plant located in Warrington, U.K. The new equipment will be constructed using state of the art materials…
Daikin to acquire Italian fluoropolymer manufacturer Heroflon
Daikin Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, Japan; www.daikin.com), recently agreed to acquire Heroflon S.p.A., an Italian manufacturer of fluoropolymer compounds. Daikin will obtain all company shares owned by the Heroflon Executive Officers with finalization of the acquisition planned for the end of…
Schneider Electric to provide process automation services to Dangote Oil Refinery
Schneider Electric (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.schneider-electric.com) has signed a contract to provide comprehensive process automation systems, solutions and services to Dangote Oil Refinery Ltd., a subsidiary of African business conglomerate Dangote Group. Under the terms of the agreement, Schneider Electric will…
MilliporeSigma to acquire chromatography membrane specialist Natrix Separations
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdmillipore.com) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Natrix Separations (www.natrixseparations.com), an Ontario, Canada-based provider of hydrogel membrane products for single-use chromatography. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 of 2017. Financial details were…
Shin-Etsu to increase silicones production capacity at Akron, Ohio site
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.shinetsu.co.jp) announced that its U.S.-based group company Shin-Etsu Silicones of America (SESA) will expand the production capacity of its plant in Akron, Ohio, which is engaged in the manufacturing and sales of silicones in the…