The preliminary value for the April CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose compared to the previous month’s value, making it the seventh straight month of increasing values. The gain in the overall PCI was driven by…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it has formed a new joint venture (JV) with Linde North America named East Coast Nitrogen (ECN) and will build a new 1,100 ton per day world-scale air separation unit (ASU) and industrial…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) marked the opening of a €45-million ($49 million) paint and coatings manufacturing facility and commercial operation in the Lipetsk region of Russia. The site will provide about 200 total positions and produce about 25…
Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) will locate the commercial-scale production facility for their omega-3 fatty acids from natural marine algae for animal nutrition in Blair, Nebraska. DSM Nutritional Products and Evonik Nutrition & Care…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) and API Applicazioni Plastiche Industriali S.p.A. (www.apiplastic.com) have signed a definitive agreement for Trinseo to acquire API. API’s key product areas include: soft-touch polymers including TPEs; thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs), EVA-based compounds, and two-component PU; as well…
Songwon Industrial Co. (Ulsan, South Korea; www.songwon.com) announced that its new pilot plant in Panoli (Gujarat), India has come onstream, thereby strengthening the organization’s overall specialty chemicals development capability. Built on Songwon’s Indian site with all the necessary main unit…
Reliance Industries Ltd. (Mumbai, India; www.ril.com) has announced the successful commissioning of the last crystallization train (Train 3) of the para-xylene (PX) complex at Jamnagar. This plant was built using state-of-the-art crystallization technology from BP. With the commissioning of this…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC; Yokohama, Japan; www.mhi.com) has received an order to build a municipal solid-waste incineration plant in Shanghai, China. Once completed, the waste-to-energy plant will have the largest waste-treatment capacity in the…
DuPont Clean Technologies (Wilminton, Del.; www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) announced that Dangote Oil Refinery Company Ltd (Dangote) has commissioned a range of advanced proprietary equipment from DuPont for the construction of a new refinery in Lekki, near Nigeria’s capital, Lagos. Construction of the new refinery…
Stepan Co. (Northfield, Ill.; www.stepan.com), through a subsidiary in Mexico, reported that it has reached an agreement with BASF Mexicana, S.A. DE C.V. to acquire its surfactant production facility in Ecatepec, Mexico and a portion of its associated surfactants business.…