Teijin Aramid (Arnhem, the Netherlands; www.teijinaramid.com) announced it is going to expand its aramid production capacity for its Twaron super fiber. It will invest in new spinning technology at the Twaron facility in Emmen, the Netherlands, starting up in the…
Versum Materials, Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.; www.versummaterials.com), a global materials supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced that it has agreed to acquire Dynaloy, LLC from Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) for approximately $13 million. Dynaloy is a leading supplier of…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA; Houston; www.mitsubishitoday.com), a fully owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo), has completed the construction of a large-scale two-train polyethylene (PE) plant in the U.S. The construction order was placed in 2014…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) today announced the start-up of a new air separation unit (ASU) to supply 700 ton/d of nitrogen to Samsung’s display manufacturing complex in Tangjeong, South Korea. Samsung’s Tangjeong complex, the world’s first and largest sixth-generation…
Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC) has chosen Honeywell UOP’s (Desplains, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology to produce 550,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene at CKPC’s proposed facility in Sturgeon County near Edmonton, Alberta. CKPC is a joint venture…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) announced an investment plan of around €300 million over five years in the biosourced polyamide 11 chain. This major investment will enable the group to increase its polyamide 11 global production capacities by 50%. The project…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Shaanxi Coal Yulin Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd. has selected LyondellBasell’s Spherizone and Lupotech T technologies. The technologies will be used in the Jingbian Chemical Industrial Park in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China. “The Spherizone technology enables polypropylene producers…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded an order for the delivery of technology and process equipment for a lithium carbonate plant in South America. The order, in the value of some €20 million, has been booked in Outotec's…
Indian Oil Corp. (IndianOil), India’s flagship national oil company, and carbon recycling company LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery offgas-to-bioethanol production facility in India. LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) announced a project to double its methyl mercaptan production capacity at its Kerteh site in Malaysia to support the strong growth of the animal feed, petrochemical and refining markets in Asia, and to strengthen its world-leading…