Xiamen Changsu Industrial Pte Ltd (Changsu Industrial) and TotalEnergies Corbion (Gorinchem, the Netherlands) have announced a strategic cooperation agreement that will further advance the polylactic acid (PLA) industry. They will work together in the market promotion, product development, and research…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) has doubled the production capacity for benzyl alcohol at its U.S. site in Kalama, Washington to support the growth of its established customer base in the Americas. The capacity expansion is the result of various technical…
Dow (Midland, Mich.) and New Energy Blue announced a long-term supply agreement in North America in which New Energy Blue will create bio-based ethylene from renewable agricultural residues. Dow expects to purchase this bio-based ethylene, reducing carbon emissions from plastic production,…
Chevron Lummus Global LLC, (CLG) announced a recent contract award from TAQAT Development Company for a new 75,000-ton/yr needle coke/synthetic graphite complex in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. Under the agreement, Chevron Lummus Global will provide pilot plant testing, licensing, basic design,…
MOL Group has agreed on a deal with BayWa AG on the purchase of Szarvas Biogas Plant, a waste processing plant using organic wastes to produce electricity and heat through cogeneration with a peak electric power capacity of around 4…
LG Water Solutions, LG Chem’s business unit specialized in water treatment and a leading manufacturer of NanoH2O reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, announced that it has been selected as the exclusive RO membrane supplier for the Ashdod Rehabilitation Project in Israel,…
SAR Technology Inc. (SAR Inc.), located in Tainan, Taiwan, has contracted with MECS, Inc. (MECS), a subsidiary of Elessent Clean Technologies (Elessent), for the supply of MECS proprietary technology and equipment in support of a new spent acid regeneration plant.…
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced its final investment decision on additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore in December 2018. The EUR 1.6 billion Singapore Expansion project has been successfully completed, the start-up of the refinery expansion has been completed…
Honeywell announced that it will provide its Ethanol to Jet (ETJ) processing technology to Summit Next Gen, an affiliate of Summit Agricultural Group. Summit Next Gen will utilize Honeywell's ETJ technology to convert low-carbon ethanol into SAF. Honeywell UOP ETJ…
Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) announced the addition of its first production line for Complēt and OnForce long fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites in Asia. The new line was installed at Avient’s Asia regional headquarters in Shanghai to help meet the increased…