Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) broke ground in Antwerp, Belgium for a new world-scale production facility for the manufacture of aniline. With the capacity expansion, the company is strengthening its European production network for the foam component MDI. For this purpose,…
OMV Petrom S.A. (Bucharest, Romania) is investing approximately EUR 130 million in the next 3 years to build a new production unit for aromatic products at the Petrobrazi refinery in Romania. The unit will function at modern BAT (Best Available…
Infineum, a joint venture between Shell and ExxonMobil, and Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Infineum to acquire Entegris’ Pipeline and Industrial Materials business (PIM). Entegris’ PIM business is part of…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) announced plans to enter into a joint venture (JV) with BWT FUMATECH Mobility GmbH, an established player in multiple hydrogen markets, focused on membrane manufacturing in the field of fuel cell technology. Completion of the…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced it has started up a new air separation unit (ASU) to supply gaseous oxygen and nitrogen to Wanhua Chemical Group (Wanhua), the world’s largest producer of isocyanate (MDI), a key ingredient in the manufacture of…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) will invest in a new world-scale Neopentyl Glycol (NPG) plant with an annual production capacity of 80,000 metric tons at its new Zhanjiang Verbund site, China. With the new NPG plant expected to come on stream…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced it has taken full ownership of its joint venture stake Solvay Special Chem Japan (SSCJ) by acquiring 33% of the minority shares from Santoku Corporation. As the sole owner of this operation located in Anan,…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has decided to boost production capacity by 60% for Lumirror biaxially oriented polyester release films for manufacturing multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs). The company will invest ¥8 billion in this upgrade at the Gifu…
In line with its previously announced plans to develop the supply of fluorinated specialty solution 1233zd, Arkema SA (Colombes, France) announced the successful start-up of the production facility of its partner Aofan in China. Additionally, Arkema has launched the construction…
Elkem Silicones (Oslo, Norway) celebrated the grand opening of its new specialized facility for producing high purity medical silicones on Wednesday, September 28, in York, S.C. Customers and local, state, and federal officials, attended the event which included a ribbon-cutting…