The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for January 2023 (most recent available) declined from the previous month’s value, continuing a series of seven consecutive monthly decreases in the CEPCI overall value. In addition, the final value…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that the company sold its AMECO South America business, which includes assets in Chile and Peru, to STRACON Group, a diversified strategic partner to the mining sector in the Americas. This transaction marks the completion…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) has successfully started up what is said to be the world's largest propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) unit in Texas. These new assets on the U.S. Gulf Coast have a capacity…
Air Liquide SA (Paris) will implement a customized process for Verallia, the European leader and the world’s third largest producer of glass packaging for beverages and food products. With the technology, Air Liquide reduces CO2 emissions and energy consumption at…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) announced the successful startup of its Beaumont refinery expansion project, which adds 250,000 barrels per day (bbl.d) of capacity to one of the largest refining and petrochemical complexes along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Supported by the company’s…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has announced plans to expand its polymer dispersions production capacity by adding a second production line at its site in the Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial Park in Guangdong, China. The new line is scheduled to start…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that Butadiene LLP has selected its iC4 CATOFIN, CATADIENE, CDMtbe technologies and BASF's butadiene extraction technology for units at Butadiene LLP's new petrochemical plant in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. "We are grateful to be selected and provide multiple technologies and…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Grace; Columbia, Md.) and Sohar University inaugurated a jointly operated DCR Pilot Plant at the University in Oman. "It's very exciting to move this 15-year partnership between Grace, Sohar University, and OQ to the next…
GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) is equipping two additional production lines of the energy storage and specialty chemicals group Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) for the production of lithium hydroxide. Lithium hydroxide is used as a starting material for the production of…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is expanding its presence in the global market for pharmaceutical packaging by establishing a joint venture with Inden Pharma, a well-known Spanish pharmaceutical packaging company. The copmanies are starting a long-term partnership for the certified production…