Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsuichem.com) has decided to set up a new production facility for Milastomer thermoplastic olefin elastomer at the Ohio-based plant of its U.S. subsidiary Advanced Composites, Inc. The new line will have capacity to produce 6,000…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) has expanded its capacity to produce high-purity hydrogen bromide (HBr), which is used in the manufacture of semiconductors, and started operation of the expanded HBr plant in this March. High-purity HBr is a…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and United Chemical Company LLP (UCC) have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for the development of a world-scale polyethylene project, integrated with an ethane cracker, in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Simultaneously, a government…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) intends to sell its global Polycarbonates (PCS) sheets business. PCS sheets are highly durable and free-formable sheets that are used in public transportation, roofing systems or signage applications. As a first step, Covestro’s PCS sheets…
Tronox Ltd, (Stamford, Conn.; www.tronox.com), a global mining and inorganic chemicals company, announced that Tronox LLC, its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, has entered into a purchase agreement with EMD Acquisition LLC to sell certain assets and liabilities of its Electrolytic…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by JSC ACRON subsidiary JSC Dorogobuzh to provide equipment to revamp its ammonia plant located in Dorogobuzh in the Smolensk region of Russia. Under the terms of the…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract for a pre-feasibility study, with the option of proceeding to a detailed feasibility study, for Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and its subsidiaries. The studies are in support of…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes regained momentum, increasing 0.4 percent in February, after only a 0.1 percent gain in January. All changes in the data are reported on a three-month…
Digitalization, properly deployed, has been proven by ABB to cut capital and operational expenditures up to 30 percent by accelerating and optimizing decision-making. By 2025, further savings and performance improvements are expected from people working collaboratively with artificial intelligence. Colin…
ExxonMobil (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) said that it has started detailed engineering work on a potential U.S. Gulf Coast project to expand polypropylene (PP) manufacturing capacity by up to 450,000 tons a year to meet growing demand for high-performance, lightweight durable…