The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) have signed a framework agreement under which the companies will advance two key projects that will expand both ADNOC and Borealis downstream petrochemicals business and support the…
Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com), a joint venture developed by Dow and Saudi Aramco, has successfully started up its Amines plant. The Sadara Amines plant is composed of two separate facilities, the Ethanolamines plant and the Ethyleneamines plant,…
Endress+Hauser has invested €4.5 million in a new sales office in Shah Alam near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The new facility will be used mainly to expand the company’s training offering in order to provide more in-depth customer support. “The new…
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…