Dow Industrial Solutions, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com), announced plans to expand its propionic acid facility in Texas City, Texas to meet rising global demand.The propionic acid market continues to grow as a result…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) announced that it will continue production in Tarragona (Spain) beyond 2020. The company will invest around EUR 200 million to increase the cost competitiveness at the site by implementing various measures. As a first step,…
Hanwha Total Petrochemical (Seoul, South Korea), a 50/50 joint venture between Hanwha Corp. (Seoul; www.hanwha.com) and Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), will invest more than $300 million to expand its integrated petroleum-refining and petrochemicals platform located in Daesan, South Korea…
NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Canada; www.novachem.com) announced two significant growth projects for its Ontario operations involving a capital investment expected to exceed Cdn $2 billion. This brings industry-leading manufacturing technology to Ontario, with improved product performance and increased energy efficiency.…
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Luxembourg; www.orioncarbons.com) announced that it has completed construction of a new Carbon Black production line at its plant in Yeosu, South Korea, to produce specialty products. The line started production on November 23rd and has begun…
Veolia North America (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) has announced a significant investment for a new “debottlenecking” project at its Burnside, La., sulfur regeneration facility, which provides merchant sulfuric acid regeneration services to refineries and produces various sulfur-based products. The project investment…
The U.S. chemical industry is riding a global wave of growth as the world’s major economies experience an upswing for the first time in a decade. Increased output and accelerating growth rates that surpass the previous twenty-year average will help…
Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com) today announced an agreement with Xuzhou HaiDing Chemical Technology Co. Ltd. to develop a custom-built Catofin catalyst and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in cooperation with its technology partner CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com). The project includes…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) announced plans to build a new lubricants blending plant in China to help meet the country’s rapidly growing demand for high quality lubricants. The new plant will be BP’s third lubricants blending plant in China and,…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Bedford, Mass.; www.aspentech.com) has acquired the Cipher Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) cloud-native software and edge connectivity assets of RtTech Software Inc. of New Brunswick, Canada. The acquisition strengthens AspenTech’s asset optimization strategy by providing sophisticated cloud…