W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.), announced the successful start-up of two 400,000-ton/yr UNIPOL PP process technology lines at Oriental Energy in Ningbo, China. This brings the total UNIPOL PP operating capacity in China to more than 6.3 million tons per year…
Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) announced that it has taken a positive Final Investment Decision (FID) on the construction of its Flagship Plant to produce furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). The positive FID was taken after the Company fulfilled all three Key Conditions…
DuPont Clean Technologies announces that the STRATCO alkylation unit at the Fujian Refining and Petrochemical Co., Ltd (FREP) refinery in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, has successfully started up and completed the performance test, certifying that the unit is meeting performance guarantees.…
Clariant’s Catalysts business unit recently made a significant investment to modernize its research facility in Toyama, Japan, preparing it for faster, more efficient experimentation. In addition to being Clariant’s global competence center for nickel-based hydrogenation and styrene catalyst development, the…
Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) is expanding its total investment in its new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Taiwan to approximately $500 million over the next three years. The new facility, which is expected to generate approximately $500 million in annual revenue…
Saudi Aramco Technologies Co. and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) have formed a technology partnership with Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) in support of Axens’ AlphaButol licensed process to enhance 1-butene production by using the AFA (Anti-Fouling Agent) technology. The AFA technology,…
SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with OQ Chemicals GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany) to support the study for developing a petrochemical project in the Special Economic Zone of Duqm (SEZAD) in Oman. The non-binding MoU…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) has entered into a long-term agreement with Laurentis Energy Partners, a leader in the clean-energy industry, to produce and distribute helium-3 (3He). This molecule is a rare isotope of helium used in quantum computing, quantum science,…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston) has announced plans to purchase a compounding facility in San Jose Iturbide, Mexico, growing its global footprint and expanding production capacity for high-performance engineered materials. The purchase agreement includes the assets of DM Color Mexicana, a…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that it will establish a separate mobile-emissions catalysts, automotive catalysts recycling and associated precious metal services entity. The new entity will be named BASF Automotive Catalysts and Recycling. The new standalone structure will prepare the…