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.…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) was contracted to license its Unipol PP (polypropylene) process technology to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Hengli Group. The installation will be made at the company’s facility in Dalian,…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) announced the opening of its new alkyl ketene dimer (AKD) emulsion and cationic rosin production lines at its production site in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. With the inauguration of the new production line, Kemira is able…
LG Chem (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgchem.com) has been chosen as the sole supplier of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to a seawater desalination plant with 300,000-metric-ton (m.t.) capacity which Metito, a global water treatment company, will build in El Galalah and…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Nextnine, a privately held provider of security management solutions and technologies for industrial cybersecurity. The addition of Nextnine's industry-leading security solutions and secure remote service…
Ineos (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has announced plans to construct a world-scale PDH (propane dehydrogenation) unit in Europe. The plant will produce 750,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of propylene for Ineos units across the continent. A number of possible locations are currently…