Business & Economics
2019 Nicholas Chopey Scholarship
Chemical Engineering established the annual Chopey Scholarship for Chemical Engineering Excellence in late 2007 to bring recognition to the chemical engineering profession and to help advance that profession. The award is named after Nicholas P. Chopey, the magazine’s former Editor-in-Chief…
Technology Profile: Epichlorohydrin Production from Propylene
This column is based on “Epichlorohydrin Production from Propylene – Cost Analysis,” a report published by Intratec. It can be found at: www.intratec.us/analysis/epichlorohydrin-production-cost. Epichlorohydrin, (also known as ECH and chloromethyloxirane), is an organochlorine compound and a highly reactive epoxide that…
Saudi Aramco and Hyosung agree to explore more carbon-fiber plants
Hyosung Chemical (Seoul, South Korea; www.hyosungchemical.com) chairman Cho Hyun-Joon signed a memorandum of understanding with Amin H. Nasser, president and CEO of Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) a global petrochemical company of Saudi Arabia, at Conrad Seoul in Yeouido,…
Standard Lithium breaks ground on lithium-extraction demonstration plant
Standard Lithium Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C.; www.standardlithium.com), today announced that it has broken ground in El Dorado, Arkansas for its first-of-a-kind direct lithium extraction demonstration plant that selectively extracts lithium from the tail brine that is a byproduct of the existing…
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.…