Total S.A.’s (Paris, France; www.total.com) petroleum-refining and chemicals platform in Antwerp has started up production of ethylene using ethane feedstock, which is extracted from natural gas and is significantly cheaper than oil-derived feedstock. Total has invested nearly $60 million to…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (www.engineering-airliquide.com) has just signed a new contract to supply an air separation unit (ASU) to Shandong Lianmeng Chemical, a large chemical company in China. Air Liquide Engineering & Construction will design and build for Shandong…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solay.com) has agreed to sell its 50% stake in Dacarto Benvic to its joint venture partner, which will become the sole owner of the Brazilian polyvinyl chloride (PVC) compound processor. The sale follows Solvay’s withdrawal from…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is setting aside € 100 million for the topic of digitalization and is also entering into a strategic partnership with IBM and the University of Duisburg-Essen, aimed at forging ahead with the digital change…
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com) has awarded a material supply agreement to CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) for the revamp of existing furnace facilities at CAP’s naphtha cracker plant. Both companies signed basic and detailed engineering…
Realistic test conditions form a basic prerequisite for the successful development of Industry 4.0 applications for the process industry. Yet, developers frequently do not have access to this crucial process data. This situation is to be redressed with a new…
SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr) has launched Organix, the first digital marketplace for organic waste. This platform can connect producers of organic waste (food industry manufacturers, cooperatives and so on) and methanation unit operators, who transform them into energy. They can…
Abengoa (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has signed contracts to develop a desalination and irrigation project in the Agadir region of Morocco. The project, valued €309 million, involves the construction of a desalination plant with a 275,000-m3 total production capacity of desalinated…
After a construction period of a year and a half, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) is prepared to commence operations in a new production facility for high-quality, multilayered flat films at the Dormagen site. The total investment of around €20…
Following the acquisition of U.S. firm Chemtura in April 2017, specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has revised its organizational structure. The two business lines Rubber Additives Business (RAB) and Colorant Additives Business (CAB) now both belong to…