Ingevity Corp. (North Charleston, S.C.; www.ingevity.com) announced that it will build a new activated-carbon extrusion plant in Changshu, China, to meet growing global demand for pelletized carbon products primarily for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars, trucks,…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) has successfully started up production in its new strength resin plant located in Estella, Spain. The high-efficiency and premium-strength resins produced at the plant are used in tissue, laminate, specialty and packaging, as well as…
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…
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.shinetsu.co.jp) will double the production capacity of Shin-Etsu Magnetic Materials Vietnam Co. (SMMV), its Group company located in Vietnam’s Hai Phong Province that manufactures rare-earth magnets. At present, SMMV’s rare-earth magnet production capacity is 1,100…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced it has been awarded a technology contract by Shurtan Gas Chemical Complex LLC (SGCC) for a grassroots ethylene complex to be built in southern Uzbekistan. The scope of work includes the license and basic…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (www.engineering-airliquide.com) has been selected to supply two hydrogen production steam methane reformer (SMR) units to Dangote Group, the largest manufacturing conglomerate in West Africa. The SMR units will be core to a new hydrogen generation…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) held a groundbreaking event to mark the start of construction of a new Chemours Mining Solutions manufacturing facility in the state of Durango, Mexico. This project represents an estimated $150-million investment. Located in the…
DuPont Industrial Biosciences (www.biosciences.dupont.com) has launched extended product lines for Axtra PHY 20000 TPT and Axtra PHY 25000 G fast-acting phytase enzymes in Europe. “We are excited to extend the product line of our award-winning phytase in the EU. Axtra…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it has been awarded the industrial gases supply to support the capacity expansion of the Tianjin facility of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), one of the world’s leading semiconductor foundries and the…
The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that global chemicals production rose 0.5 percent in May after revised flat performance in April, as measured on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis.…