CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded a substantial contract for the license, engineering design and catalyst supply for five proprietary technologies to be used in an integrated refining and petrochemical project in China. The complex…
Veolia (Paris, France; www.veolia.com) has just established a partnership with Carbon Clean Solutions Ltd. (CCSL; www.carboncleansolutions.com), the global leader in low-cost carbon capture technology, for the large-scale rollout of CCSL’s patented carbon dioxide (CO2) separation technology. The objective is to…
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) will increase production capacity for Hipore Li-ion battery (LIB) separator at its plant in Moriyama, Shiga, Japan, with startup scheduled in the first half of fiscal 2019. The company will invest approximately ¥15 billion…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has signed a definitive agreement to sell its polyolefin cross-linkable compounds business in Italy to family-owned group Finproject SpA. "Following Solvay’s transformation, polyolefin cross-linkable compounds no longer fit within the portfolio of high-performance specialty polymers.…
The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that headline global production rose 0.3 percent in February, following a 0.5 percent gain in January, as measured on a three-month moving average (3MMA)…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is expanding the capacity of its global production network to safeguard customer supply in the long term. In Krefeld-Uerdingen, site of the world’s largest synthetic iron oxide pigment plant, production capacities for red and black…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) officially inaugurated its Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) production plant at its La Porte, Texas site. Braskem sells high-performance UHMWPE under the trade name UTEC, developed and produced through Braskem’s proprietary technologies. “We are…
GTC Technology (Houston; www.gtctech.com) has provided its low-temperature Isomalk-2 process technology for the successful startup of a light naphtha isomerization unit at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Ltd. (BPCL) refinery in Mumbai, India. The unit will produce an isomerate gasoline blend…
Black & Veatch (Overland Perk, Kan.; www.bv.com) has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services on four solar-energy projects for Florida Power & Light (FPL). The plants are part of an extensive renewable energy program designed to…
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced the completion of the construction phase of its new, world-scale ethylene production facility in Freeport, Tex. The company reached this milestone within one week of the originally planned date, which was set…