Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an award for its ethylbenzene technology from a customer in Jiangsu Province, China. Once complete, the unit will produce 508,000 metric ton per year (m.t./yr) of ethylbenzene via the EBOne technology. "We look forward to continuing…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has completed a significant capacity expansion of its sodium methylate production facility located in Mobile, Ala. With the expansion, the production unit will now be capable of producing up to 90,000 metric tons per year…
Eni S.p.A.’s (Rome, Italy) subsidiary Ecofuel, the company responsible for managing Eni’s investments in the circular economy, and FRI-EL Greenpower, a Gostner family holding, leader in the sectors of electricity production from renewable sources, have reached an agreement for Eni…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced that it is making an investment to upgrade and expand its extrusion capabilities for production of interlayers product lines at its Springfield, Massachusetts, manufacturing facility. The investment will strengthen Eastman’s supply capability to respond…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced the successful commissioning of its ammonia revamp project for Acron PJSC (Acron), at its Dorogobuzh site in Russia. The plant performance post revamp has surpassed all guaranteed parameters. This plant was revamped to enhance the ammonia…
Invista (Wichita, Kan.) has completed its project to bring the company’s most advanced adiponitrile (ADN) technology to its site in Victoria, Texas, on schedule, as part of the site’s regularly planned maintenance turnaround. The site will manage a controlled start-up…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) has completed the first phase of the construction of its planned 25-MW electrolysis hydrogen plants in the Tainan Technology Industrial Park in Taiwan. These plants will provide ultra-high purity hydrogen to the semiconductor industry as well…
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Lotte GS Chemical Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) will use Honeywell UOP Q-Max, Phenol 3G, and Evonik MSHP technologies to produce more than 565,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of phenol and acetone at its petrochemicals…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) have announced the successful start-up of ISO C4 plant for direct production of high-purity isobutene at the Burghausen site. The plant is based on a novel technology developed jointly by the…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy), through its subsidiaries NextChem, Stamicarbon and MET Development (MET DEV), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Adani Enterprises Ltd. (AEL) to explore the development of industrial projects using NextChem and Stamicarbon’s technologies and…