Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that it is expanding production capacity for its Aclar business to meet growing worldwide demand by the pharmaceutical industry. The expansion—part of Honeywell’s continuing investment in the Aclar business—will be completed this year in…
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) announced that it has successfully completed commissioning and begun start-up of its new polyethylene units at Old Ocean, Texas. Each unit will produce up to 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) will increase fluoropolymer (Kynar PVDF) capacity at its Calvert City, Kentucky plant in the United States by some 20%. The expansion is fueled by strong demand in the new energies and water management markets as well…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) have signed an agreement related to the sale of Solvay’s integrated polyamide business to BASF. The purchase price on a cash and debt-free basis would be €1.6 billion. According…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) invests in another production plant for specialty zeolites at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, headquarters site. These specialty zeolites will be used to produce state-of-the-art emissions catalysts for heavy-duty and light-duty diesel vehicles. Due to an increasingly…
Honeywell says that its UOP Russell business (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) will provide a turn-key cryogenic gas processing plant to Cureton Midstream, LLC (Denver, Colo). The new plant is designed to extract 99% of ethane and 100% of propane from…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been selected by Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services (EPCM) for Aerie’s first pharmaceutical-manufacturing facility, located in the Industrial Development Authority (IDA)’s advanced technology building in Athlone,…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded the oxygen supply for the new production facility of LG Chem (LGC), Korea’s number one chemical company and one of the largest chemical companies in the world. Air Products will supply…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Enviral, a.s. (Leopoldov; Slovakia; www.enviral.sk), the largest producer of bioethanol in Slovakia, today announced that they have signed a license agreement on sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology (www.sunliquid.com). Enviral has acquired a license to use Clariant’s…
The new 1.8-million metric ton per year (m.t./yr) Midrex hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant at Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Integrated Works (LGOK), in Gubkin Russia, has announced the completion of its performance guarantee test (PGT). The plant, Midrex HBI-3, was…