ICL Industrial Products (ICL IP; Tel Aviv, Israel), a segment of ICL (www.icl-group.com) says that it has successfully completed the chemical process start-up of a new manufacturing facility in Israel for the production of FR-122P, ICL IP’s new polymeric flame…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed a definitive agreement to sell its manufacturing facility for natural fish oils, medium-concentrated omega-3s, and customized bottled fish oil in Brattvåg, Norway, to Marine Ingredients, a leading manufacturer of quality marine-based ingredients and…
The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) expanded again in October by 0.6%, matching its gain from September, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Chemical output remained…
Verdezyne Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.; www.verdezyne.com) will build a commercial-scale renewable chemicals plant in a biotechnology industrial park in Nusajaya, Malaysia. Through an agreement with Malaysian Bio-XCell Sdn Bhd (Nusajaya, Malaysia; www.bio-xcell.my), construction will commence in 2015. The plant is designed…
Technology, engineering and project management company Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) will perform Project Management, Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management services to construct Norilsk Nickel LNG Station in Harjavalta, Finland. Neste Jacobs will carry out the project during the…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki; www.kemira.com) has announced the completion of the company’s new Nanjing production base. The Nanjing plant is located in the Nanjing Chemical Park, Jiangsu Province. Kemira’s already completed and future investments into the plant will amount to approximately$…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston; www.westlake.com) to provide detailed engineering and procurement services to expand the recovery section of Westlake’s Petro 1 ethylene plant at its complex in Sulphur, Louisiana, USA. Technip’s operating…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has opened its new center for research and development of high-performance materials on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands. The completion of DSM’s largest materials center worldwide is part of the €100-million…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) today announced that Huineng, a large-scale substitute natural gas (SNG) plant, went successfully on-stream near the city of Ordos, located in Inner Mongolia in the northern part of China. Topsøe has designed the methanation…
BP plc (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) has announced that it plans to invest over $200 million to upgrade its purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants at Cooper River, South Carolina and Geel, Belgium. The investments will position these assets amongst the most…