Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) will introduce this year a specific grade of urea called Technical Grade Urea (TGU) that will allow diesel engines run more efficiently and reduce hazardous emissions. The new grade will be…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation group, have announced that production operations have begun with the filling and shipping of the first two 11,000-gallon helium ISO containers from…
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) has announced the construction of a production facility in Nowa Ruda, Poland, for emission-control catalysts used in cars and trucks. The investment will allow Umicore to meet the growth in demand for automotive catalysts from…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene S process to Hyundai Engineering Co., for the Turkmengas new greenfield world-scale petrochemical complex in the Balkan Region of Turkmenistan. The contract for construction of the gas chemical complex in Turkmenistan,…
GE (Fairfield, Conn.; www.ge.com) has announced the construction of a new state-of-the-art Power & Water advanced manufacturing facility to be built in Greenville, SC. GE plans to invest $400 million over the next ten years in Greenville to expand the…
Sasol Chemicals North America LLC (Westlake, La.; www.sasolnorthamerica.com) and INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA (La Porte, Tex.; www.ineos.com) announced today that they have reached final investment decision to form a joint venture to build a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in…
The specialty chemicals group Altana (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has announced the grand opening of a plant for its additives subsidiary BYK USA Inc. The expanded facility is located in Wallingford, Conn. With this plant, BYK more than doubles production capacity…
Enerkem (Montreal, Canada; www.enerkem.com) has inaugurated its first full-scale municipal waste-to-biofuels and chemicals facility in Edmonton, Alberta. “Our breakthrough technology uses garbage instead of fossil sources for the production of chemicals and liquid transportation fuels. We are proud of…
The S&P index for chemical companies was up 8.5% from the beginning of 2014, while the wider and more diverse S&P 500 index was up 4.1% over the same time period, according to data discussed in the latest Weekly Chemistry…
OriginOil Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.originoil.com), developer of Electro Water Separation (EWS), the high-speed, chemical-free process to clean up large quantities of water, announced today that CLEAN-FRAC 1000, its new demonstration-scale hydraulic fracturing water-treatment system, was shown to successfully remove…