JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) announced that Al Asilah Desalination Company S.A.O.C, in which JGC is the major shareholder, has received an award to build, own and operate a seawater desalination plant in the Sharqiyah region in eastern Oman by…
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) finalized an agreement to acquire Brazilian firm Polinox, South America’s leading producer of ketone peroxides, essential in the manufacture of polymers. The acquisition will expand the company’s footprint in South America, and establish…
Veolia, through its subsidiary Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertechnologies.com), and the Dubai Municipality successfully commissioned the Jebel Ali Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility, which is set to treat 600 cubic meters of hazardous liquid waste per day. In support of the Dubai…
Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has successfully started up its new world-scale production unit “Propanol 2” at its Bay City, Texas, USA, site. The has has capacity to product 100,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of propanol. The now fully…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Chengzhi Shareholding Co., Ltd., to further the development of acetic acid-based ethanol as a clean energy source in China. From 2014 to 2017, Celanese operated a 275,000…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) and Socar Polymer (Baku, Azerbaijian; www.socarpolymer.az) officially opened the new polypropylene plant inside the petrochemical complex of Sumgayit, 30 km north of Baku, in Azerbaijan. Fabrizio Di Amato, Maire Tecnimont Chairman and majority shareholder,…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced it has signed a long-term agreement to supply oxygen to U.S. Methanol LLC’s new facility in Institute, West Virginia. The customer’s facility will produce methanol for use in the production of plastics, varnishes, medicines,…
Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) and Global Energy Private Limited (GPGEPL), part of UAE-based global conglomerate GP Global, have announced an exclusive partnership to manufacture and market Cepsa branded marine and power generation lubricants in India.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is expanding its cooperation with Materialise, a leading supplier of 3D printing technologies. At the same time, BASF has agreed to invest $25 million in the Belgian company, which is headquartered in Leuven. The two…
The preliminary value for the May 2018 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; most recent available) once again increased substantially compared to the previous month’s value, continuing a string of monthly increases since the beginning of 2018. The rise seems to…