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DuPont purchases manufacturing site in Delaware to produce perfluoroelastomer materials

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced that DuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers (T&AP), a business unit of DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, purchased a new facility in Newark, Del., to manufacture DuPont Kalrez, a specialized engineered material used in a variety of…

Eastman completes copolyester expansion, plans to add additional capacity for PETG and PCTG

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) announced it has completed the previously announced Eastman Tritan copolyester expansion at its Kingsport manufacturing site. The plant is now fully operational and is supplying product to customers. “We are excited to announce the…

Krohne starts up flow and level instrument manufacturing facility in Beverly, Mass.

KROHNE, Inc. (Peabody, Mass.; www.us.krohne.com) announced that its new state of the art flow and level instrument manufacturing and calibration facility, located in Beverly, Mass., opened on April 23, 2018. The operations expansion in North America represents the company’s long…

Chemours to invest $100 million to upgrade emissions control at Fayetteville plant

The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) announced plans to spend over $100 million at its Fayetteville Works plant site in Fayetteville, North Carolina to improve air and wastewater emission control. The commitment includes investing in an array of emission control technologies, including a thermal oxidizer and a thermolysis reactor, as well as…

JGC and S&B form partnership for U.S. EPC projects

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) and S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. have signed a framework agreement to form a strategic partnership to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for projects within the United States.  Leveraging the experience…

Ineos begins FEED work for Marl cumene plant

INEOS (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) announced that INEOS Phenol is taking the next step to build a world-scale cumene unit in Germany to be completed in 2020. The company has confirmed that it has started a Front End Engineering Design study…

Sonatrach to use technologies from Honeywell UOP for Skikda Refinery expansion

Honeywell announced that Sonatrach, Algeria’s largest company, will use technologies from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) to expand the Skikda Refinery on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Algeria. The new technologies will enable Sonatrach to meet growing domestic demand…

Chandra Asri selects process technology from GTC for aromatics recovery unit

GTC Technology (Houston; www.gtctech.com) is licensing its GT-BTX process for a new aromatics recovery unit for PT Chandra Asri Perkasa (CAP2; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com), a fully owned subsidiary of PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk. The unit is part of Chandra…

nVent Electric completes separation from Pentair

nVent Electric plc (London, U.K.; www.nvent.com) announced the completion of its separation from Pentair plc and its launch as an independent, publicly traded company. nVent began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 1, 2018, under the symbol…

Formosa Plastics selects ExxonMobil, Univation and JPP as technology providers for Point Comfort project

Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. (FCP; Livingston, N.J.; www.fcpusa.com) is announcing the process technologies being used for the polyethylene and polypropylene production expansions in Point Comfort, Texas. The new tubular low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant’s technology has been licensed from ExxonMobil Catalysts…