Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC; Findley, Ohio; www.marathonpetroleum.com) has contracted Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to provide its Connect’In services for realtime process monitoring and optimization of multiple Continuous Catalytic Regenerative (CCR) Reformers and multiple Prime-G+ FCC gasoline post-treatment units across their…
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR; www.socar.az) has announced the start of production of its new carbamide plant. The plant has a production capacity of 650–660,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of carbamide products using 435 million cubic…
Attis Industries Inc. (Milton, Ga.; www.attisinnovations.com) announced that it will collaborate with Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.novozymes.com). Under this newly announced relationship, Novozymes has committed to supplying the enzymes required by Attis to convert its pulp into sugar at all of…
PMC Ouvrie SAS, France, a wholly owned subsidiary of PMC Group International Inc. (Mount Laurel, N.J.; www.pmc-group.com), which is an independent arm of PMC Group Inc., announced the acquisition of a hydrocolloid product line from Solvay, S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com).…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) announced that it intends to begin production for alpha-methylstyrene (α-methylstyrene) at Singaporean subsidiary Mitsui Phenols Singapore Pte. Ltd. (MPS). Located at Jurong Island, Singapore, MCI intends to produce 20,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire a synthesis gas (syngas) production unit from Linde PLC (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com). The production unit, which has a production capacity of 365,000 metric tons per year…
Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) announced large-scale commercial production of its Brontide butylene glycol. Over 600 tons of high-purity, naturally-sourced Brontide were produced in under five weeks and packaged in thousands of drums. Both quality and consistency were confirmed, with…
Ineos Enterprises (London; www.ineos.com) announces that is has selected Antwerp, Belgium as the location for its latest petrochemicals investment, consisting of an ethane gas cracker and world-scale propane dehydration (PDH) unit in Europe. The €3 billion investment will be the…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; www.nouryon.com) will expand its offering to customers in the detergents market through a supply agreement with bio-based polymers maker Itaconix Corp. (Stratham, N.H.; www.itaconix.com). Under terms of the agreement, Itaconix will produce and supply polymers…
Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India; www.praj.net) announced the groundbreaking of the compressed bio-gas (CBG) integrated demo plant of at Shreenath Mhaskoba Surgar Factory, adjacent to the existing 2nd Gen Bio-Refinery demo facility that has been operational for 3 years. Praj…