DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) has been awarded the contract to supply Orlen Lietuva with licensing, engineering, and technical services for a Stratco alkylation unit and a MECS spent acid regeneration (SAR) unit at the Mažeikiai refinery in Mažeikiai, Lithuania. The…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) has successfully started up two new air separation units (ASUs) to supply gaseous oxygen and nitrogen to Wanhua Chemical Group, the world's largest producer of isocyanate (MDI). The new plants join two existing ASUs, also built…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is investing in the short-term expansion of its specialty lipids production which are essential for mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. Commercial lipid quantities are to be produced at Evonik’s Hanau and Dossenheim sites in Germany as early…
DuPont Interconnect Solutions, a unit of DuPont Electronics & Industrial announced its $220 million expansion project at the Circleville, Ohio site is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021. The investment will expand production of Kapton polyimide film…
JERA Co., Inc. has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Malaysia’s national oil and natural gas company, concerning cooperation in the decarbonization sector. Against the backdrop of growing global demand for LNG…
Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are investigating the possibilities of large-scale production of green hydrogen at the Maasvlakte area in Rotterdam. The parties have the ambition to realize a hydrogen plant on the site of…
OCI Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.oci.co.kr) and POSCO Chemical (Pohang-si, South, Korea; www.posco.com) held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant of P&O Chemical, the companies’ joint venture, at the National Industrial Complex in Taein-dong, Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do. The ceremony…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has decided to establish Sumika Polymer Compounds Poland Sp.z.o.o. (SPCP), a new production base in Poland, to further enhance its polypropylene (PP) compound business. SPCP will start commercial production in the spring of 2022. PP…
Abengoa (Seville, Spain) has completed the construction of the demonstration plant for the Grasshopper project, in which it participates and whose objective is the production of sustainable power using hydrogen fuel cells. As part of this project, a pilot plant…
Special chemicals group SNF Holding Company (Riceboro, Ga.) will invest $300 million in the U.S. in 2021-2022 for an additional 30,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of powder-grade polyacrylamide (PAM) and 100,000 m.t./yr of Acrylamide production at the company’s facility in…