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Thyssenkrupp Uhde to build a polyester textile plant for Yürek in Turkey

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 signs licensing agreement contract for urea plant revamp in Egypt

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 to begin producing bio-based polymers at two plants

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…

Evonik starts up lipids supply for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine manufacture

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…

Arkema to start up new bio-based polyamide 11 plant in Singapore next year

Arkema (Colombes, France) is on track to begin production of Amino 11 and its flagship Rilsan polyamide 11 high performance polymer at the new plant on Jurong Island, Singapore (photo) in the first half of next year. This plant, for…

Eastman will be host CPI sponsor for 5th Connected Plant Conference

  POWER magazine and Chemical Engineering magazine announce Eastman Chemical as the Host Chemical Process Industries (CPI) Sponsor for the 5th annual Connected Plant Conference HOUSTON, TX, April 21 – The 5th Annual Connected Plant Conference is proud to announce…

Koch Engineered Solutions to support execution of Grön Fuels renewable energy complex

Koch Engineered Solutions (Wichita, Kan.) announced that two of its companies, Optimized Process Designs (OPD) and Koch Project Solutions (KPS), have engaged with Fidelis Infrastructure, LP as partners to support the execution and implementation of certain components of the Grön Fuels,…

BASF, Quantafuel and Remondis to cooperate on chemical recycling of plastic waste

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Quantafuel ASA (Oslo, Norway) and Remondis SE & Co. KG (Lünen, Germany) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly evaluate a cooperation in chemical recycling including a joint investment into a pyrolysis plant for…

Axens Acquires Flowvision

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) has signed a Share Sale and Purchase Agreement for the acquisition, on 15 April 2021, of Flowvision (Denmark, Odense), an engineering company specialized in emission abatement systems for the reduction of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) in fluegas…

DuPont invests $30 million to construct new adhesives plant in China

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it is investing approximately $30 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province in East China. The new facility will produce adhesives to serve customers in the transportation industry, primarily in support…