Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a contract by Total Corbion PLA, a 50/50 joint venture between Total and Corbion, to carry out a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for their 100,000 metric tons…
Sibur (Moscow, Russia) and TAIF have initiated a number of steps to combine their petrochemical businesses. Existing TAIF shareholders will receive a 15% stake in PJSC SIBUR Holding in exchange for the transfer of a controlling interest in TAIF’s group…
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.), through its Chevron Products Company division (Chevron), and Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Toyota) announced a memorandum of understanding to explore a strategic alliance to catalyze and lead the development of commercially viable, large-scale…
Sugar beet processor Cosun Beet Company, part of Royal Cosun, and Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) announced their ambition to jointly construct and operate the first commercial plant for the production of plant-based glycols using Avantium’s Ray Technology. To this…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) of gasoline component ready for blending to U.S. commercial grades. The…
Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corp. (HTEC; Vancouver, B.C., Canada) announced a collaboration with Mitsui & Co. (Canada), Ltd., which is the wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., (Tokyo), to develop a 5.0 megawatt (MW) electrolytic hydrogen production project…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a contract to build a new world-scale polymer plant for Yürek Polimer A.S. in Bursa, Turkey. The plant is planned to produce 300 metric tons per day (108,000 tons per year) of PET…
Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group (Rome, Italy), has signed a contract with Abu Qir Fertilizers Co., in Alexandria, Egypt, for the revamp of one of their urea melt plants (known as…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) has obtained ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) Plus for bio-balanced products produced from renewable plant-based raw materials such as waste cooking oil and palm oil. LG Chem received ISCC Plus certification on nine…
Helping to accelerate the production of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is delivering first batches of the urgently needed lipids for the mRNA-based vaccine to BioNTech months earlier than planned. Specialists at Evonik’s Hanau site…