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BASF to increase production capacities for chloroformates and acid chlorides

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen Germany) announced plans to fundamentally modernize the entire infrastructure, including the facilities for the production of chloroformates and acid chlorides, at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site. The company is investing a low three-digit million euro amount for this.…

Maire Tecnimont awarded EPC contract from Ryazan Refining Co.

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A and MT Russia LLC have signed an EPC contract with Rosneft for the implementation of the VGO Hydrocracking Complex at the Ryazan Refining Company’s (RORC) production site, 200 km…

Larsen & Toubro and HydrogenPro to set up electrolyzer manufacturing JV in India

Larsen & Toubro (L&T), an Indian multinational engaged in EPC Projects, Hi-Tech Manufacturing and Services announced it has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HydrogenPro AS, a Norway-based leading Electrolyzer technology and manufacturing company for partnership to tap the…

Air Liquide to supply ultra-high-purity gases for semiconductor manufacturer in Arizona

Air Liquide announced a longterm agreement to supply ultra-high-purity hydrogen, helium, and carbon dioxide to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers. Air Liquide plans to invest nearly $60 million (approximately 50 million euros) to build, own and operate onsite plants…

BASF increases enzymes capacity in Ludwigshafen

BASF SE (Ludwigshafe, Germany) has expanded the production capacity of its enzymes plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Through the expansion of the existing plant, BASF has significantly increased the annual number of feasible fermentation runs. The larger production capacity enables BASF…

Arkema to further expand PVDF capacity in China

Due to strong demand for lithium-ion batteries, and other important markets, Arkema (Colombes, France) has announced that its 35% fluoropolymer capacity increase at its Changshu site in China is now revised upwards to a capacity increase of 50%, with no…

Lanxess to expand production capacity for chlorocresol active ingredient

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is expanding its production capacity for the active ingredient Preventol CMK (chlorocresol) at the Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, site by around 50 percent in response to the continuing strong demand for disinfectants and industrial preservation. The specialty chemicals…

Sumitomo Chemical to expand production capacity for liquid crystal polymer

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has decided to build additional production lines for its liquid crystal polymer (LCP) SUMIKASUPER, which is a super-engineering plastic, at its Ehime Works (Niihama city, Ehime, Japan). In the Sumitomo Chemical Group, LCP is produced…

SOCAR and Axens sign agreements related to refinery modernization and reconstruction

SOCAR HQ held a ceremony to sign licensing and design agreements for the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit between the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery (HAOR) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) as part of the HAOR Modernization and Reconstruction Project. The ceremony…

Wood selected by Green Lithium to support the U.K.’s first commercial lithium refinery

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has signed an agreement with mineral processing company Green Lithium, to be its Owner’s Engineer to build and operate the U.K.’s first large-scale commercial lithium refinery. The partnership aims to fill the missing link in the…