Ineos (London, U.K.; www.ineos.com) announced that INEOS Phenol is planning to build a world-scale cumene plant in Germany with planned startup in 2020. The construction of a new cumene plant will support customer demand and improve the security of raw…
Lonza Group AG (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) has launched the latest addition to its current biological manufacturing capabilities. Ibex Solutions is an innovative biological development and manufacturing concept, coupling flexibility in facility build-out with fully tailored business models and leveraging Lonza's…
Indorama Ventures Public Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) has announced the inauguration of a giant world-class fertilizer plant located in Nigeria, built by Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Ltd. at the cost of $1.5 billion. Acting President of Nigeria Yemi…
Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com) has successfully started up Saudi Arabia’s first Polyols plant. This manufacturing facility produces specialty chemicals that go into the production of polyurethanes and specialty foams. The polyols plant is one of the last…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) announced that it has signed an agreement with Wanhua Chemical Group, the world’s largest producer of isocyanate (MDI), to expand the supply of gas to Phase II of Wanhua Chemical’s Yantai operations. Under the…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Dorogobuzh JSC (owned by JSC ACRON) to provide licensing and basic engineering design (LBED) to revamp an ammonia plant — originally built by KBR — located in the Dorogobuzh, Smolensk…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is investing an amount in the upper double-digit million euro range in the expansion of its fumed silica capacities in Antwerp, Belgium. The production complex is scheduled to become operational in the summer of…
Indian refinery company HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd. (HMEL) has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) diesel hydrotreater unit and hydrogen generation facilities to meet their upgrading requirements. The revamped refinery in Bathinda, Punjab will meet the BS VI (equivalent to…
Indorama Ventures Public Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) announced the completion of the brownfield expansion of its Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plant, resulting in the total PTA capacity of 700,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) at Rotterdam, and totally over…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsuichem.com) and Prime Polymer Co., Ltd., a joint venture (JV) in which Mitsui Chemicals holds 65% and Idemitsu Kosan 35%, announced that production augmentation has been completed and started up to strengthen the group’s position…