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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…

KBR signs engineering services agreement with National Renewable Energy Laboratory

KBR, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a contract by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the managing and operating contractor of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), to provide engineering, advisory and evaluation services. NREL is a national laboratory within…

Air Products starts up syngas supply to BPCL Kochi refinery

Air Products (Lehigh Valey, Pa.) announced that the Kochi Industrial Gas Complex is reliably supplying syngas to the Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical Project (PDPP) at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) Kochi Refinery. This is the company’s second supply contract with…

Grace licenses polypropylene technology to Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical

W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.) has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology and its UNIPOL UNIPPAC Process Control Software to Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sinochem Hongrun). The UNIPOL PP facility, located in Qingzhou, Weifang, Shandong, China will…

Kurita acquires Canadian water-treatment company Keytech

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announces that it acquired 100% of the equity interests of Keytech Water Management (Ontario, Canada), a Canadian company that manufactures and sells water treatment chemicals and equipment systems, through Kurita Canada, Inc. The eastern…