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Toray starts up advanced film-production capabilities at Mashima plant

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that new film-development machinery installed at its Mishima Plant has become fully operational. This new setup will enable the company to create advanced offerings for an increasingly sophisticated and diverse film market. The machinery…

Total announces name change to TotalEnergies

At the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, shareholders approved today, almost unanimously, the resolution to change the company’s name from Total to TotalEnergies SE, thereby anchoring its strategic transformation into a broad energy company in its identity. In tandem with…

Wood wins FEED contract for Adnoc’s blue ammonia plant

Wood (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been engaged by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)  to perform Pre Front-End Engineering and Design (Pre-FEED) work for the company’s recently announced blue ammonia project and the six additional TA’ZIZ chemicals projects. Adnoc recently announced…

Toyo awarded ammonia plant project in India

Toyo Engineering India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo), has been awarded an ammonia plant project with a capacity of 1,500 tons per day and associated offsite and utility facilities from Performance Chemiserve Limited (PCL),…

New project in Ireland will investigate offshore green-hydrogen storage

ESB and dCarbonX have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint assessment and development of Irish offshore green hydrogen subsurface storage. This partnership represents another milestone in Ireland’s emerging hydrogen economy as part of its transition to a low-carbon future.   Under this agreement, ESB and dCarbonX will work together on…

Eastman to expand capacity for cellulosic filaments at Barcelona site

To serve rapidly growing customer demand, global specialty materials provider Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) is increasing its capacity to produce Naia filament yarn at its Barcelona, S.L., site by 30% by mid-2021 and more than 50% by the end…

Chevron Phillips breaks ground for new 1-hexene plant

Chevron Phillips Chemical L.P. (CP Chem; The Woodlands, Tex.) broke ground on a new world-scale unit for on-purpose 1-hexene in Old Ocean, Texas, near its Sweeny facility. With a capacity of 266,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), the new asset…

Technip Energies awarded project engineering and management contract in Kuwait

Technip Energies (Paris), through its wholly owned subsidiary in the U.K. (Technip E&C Limited), has been awarded a significant contract for Project Engineering and Management Services (PEMS) by Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) for various projects in southern Kuwait.…

Indorama to add PET resin production capacity in Nagpur, India

Indo Rama Synthetics (India) Limited (IRSL), a subsidiary of global petrochemical producer Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand), will spend up to INR 6 billion ($82 million) upgrading equipment and adding capacity at its manufacturing site in Nagpur, India. The…

MilliporeSigma launches synthetic cholesterol production to meet vaccine demand

 To meet the high demand for lipids, a key component of mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics, MilliporeSigma (Burlington, Mass.) has launched a new, high-purity synthetic cholesterol product, nine months ahead of schedule. “Tapping into two decades’ experience of developing and manufacturing high-quality…