Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.; www.cabot-corp.com) has committed to build a new world-class fumed silica plant in Carrollton, Kentucky. The plant will be adjacent to the existing Dow Corning silicone monomer plant in Carrollton and is an extension of Cabot’s long-term relationship…
Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has successfully concluded a significant upgrade of its carboxylic acids production facility in Oberhausen, Germany. As a result, Oxea has enhanced the production output of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), such as propionic acid,…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has commenced supply of its integrated oxy-fuel solution to Chengdu Jin Gu Pharmaceutical Packaging Co., Ltd. in Sichuan Province, western China, for the production of pharmaceutical glass containers. By working with another leading glass…
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) signed a partnership agreement with China’s Wison Engineering Ltd. (Shanghai, China: www.wison.com) to jointly provide methanol-to-olefin (MTO) technologies and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to customers outside of China. Honeywell UOP’s Advanced MTO…
Altair (Troy, Mich.; www.altair.com) has acquired MODELiiS, a supplier of electronic-design automation (EDA) software for circuit modeling, system design and simulation tools based in Grenoble, France. Capitalizing on strong expertise in digital and analog domains, their solutions are geared towards…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) plans to build a dedicated automotive polypropylene (PP) compounding plant in Taylorsville, North Carolina. North Carolina was selected for its strategic location and proximity to the company's customer base, as well as for the business-friendly…
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) has expanded its Tessenderlo, Belgium plant by debottlenecking its production unit for ethyl mercaptan (EM) and tetrahydrothiophene (THT). Construction began in November 2016 and the expansion commenced operations in May 2017. This…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) announced the expansion of its current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) development and production capabilities with the opening of a cGMP-compliant Kilo Suite at its Albany, Oregon facility. The new kilo lab can produce…
ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (Houston, Tex.; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) announced the mechanical completion of two new 650,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) high-performance polyethylene lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The company expects production to begin during the third quarter…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose 0.4 percent in May, following a downward revision of 0.1 percent for April. Compared to a year earlier, the CAB…