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SABIC launches sustainable development goals roadmap

SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) a global leader in the chemical industry has today launched its Sustainability Roadmap aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), outlining ambitious targets relating to resource efficiency, climate change, the circular economy, food…

Veolia to expand sulfuric acid regeneration facility in Louisiana

  Today, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Veolia North America (Boston, Mass.; www.veolia.com) President and CEO Bill DiCroce announced the company will expand its regeneration plant in Darrow, Louisiana. Known as the Burnside facility, the Veolia plant converts spent…

Nouryon increases dialkyl peroxide capacity at Ningbo, China site

Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) has increased production capacity for dialkyl peroxide at the company’s Ningbo site, China, by 25 percent after completing a major expansion project. The product, branded as Perkadox 14, is essential in the manufacture of many…

Linde signs long-term agreement to supply ExxonMobil complex in Singapore

Linde (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) announced today it has signed a long-term agreement with ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. to support the latest multi-billion dollar expansion of the company's integrated manufacturing complex in Singapore. This will be the single largest sale…

Stepped-up cooperation between Borealis and EREMA on mechanical plastics recycling

Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com), a leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base chemicals, and fertilizers; and the EREMA Group (Ansfelden, Austria; www.erema.com), the global market leader in the development and production of plastics recycling systems,…

Perstorp moves forward with project to recycle methanol

Perstorp, a global leader in the specialty chemicals market, will investigate the potential production of recycled methanol, using carbon dioxide and residual streams, at its Swedish facility in Stenungsund. The Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) will partly finance this feasibility study.…

New CEO of American Chemistry Council named

Christopher L. Jahn has been selected to become the next president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) , effective late October 2019. Jahn currently serves as president and CEO of The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) and will succeed Cal…

Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB) is flat in June, ACC says

The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), was flat (0.0 percent change) in June on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis, following three monthly gains. On a year-over-year…

Chevron Phillips Chemical and Qatar Petroleum sign agreement to develop petrochemical complex

  Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) and Qatar Petroleum (QP; Doha, Qatar; www.qp.com.qa)  announced the signing of an agreement to pursue the development, construction and operation of a petrochemicals complex in Qatar to produce ethylene and…

U.S. chemical production continues gain in May, ACC says

According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) rose by 0.4 percent in May, following a 0.2 percent gain in April and a 0.3 percent decline in March. During May,…