LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) has broken ground on the first commercial Hyperzone polyethylene (PE) plant at its La Porte, Texas, complex. The plant will be capable of producing 1.1 billion pounds (500,000 metric tons [m.t.]) of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.; www.thermofisher.com) and Patheon N.V., a leading global provider of high-quality drug development and delivery solutions to the pharmaceutical and biopharma sectors, announced that their boards of directors have approved Thermo Fisher’s acquisition of Patheon.…
Shortly after doubling its polycarbonate production capacity at its Shanghai site to 400,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) will again significantly expand its capacity to 600,000 m.t./yr. With this step, which is achieved through debottlenecking…
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdmillipore.com) announced the opening of a new joint Process Scale-Up Lab in Bengaluru, India to provide end-to-end solutions from process development to scale-up manufacturing for pre-clinical, clinical and commercial supply. “Both MilliporeSigma and Stelis bring technological expertise and…
The industrial gases specialist Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) signed an agreement with Changsha Hi Tech Zone in Southern China’s Hunan province to set up a new 520 metric-ton-per-day (m.t./d) liquid air-separation unit (ASU), just beside its existing filling station…
Inovyn (London, U.K.; www.inovyn.com) has entered into the final phases of its project to deliver a new large-scale potassium hydroxide (KOH) production facility at its Antwerp/Lillo Site (Belgium), which remains on track for Q3 2017 operation. Following successful completion…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) has inaugurated its revamped Carling – Saint-Avold petrochemical complex in eastern France following three years of transformation works. In September 2013, Total announced that it would adapt the Carling site, investing close to €200 million…
Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) synthesis-gas technology has been chosen for OLTIN YO’L GTL — a 38,000 barrels per day gas-to-liquids (GTL) energy plant in Uzbekistan. Topsoe will deliver proprietary equipment for two synthesis-gas trains, each including autothermal reformers…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded a contract for the construction of a mega-solar power generation project planned by Pacifico Energy K.K. in Mimasaka City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The lump sum turnkey contract calls for JGC to carry…
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) announced today that Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will use four of its Polybed pressure swing adsorption (PSA) units to supply high-purity hydrogen for its new integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, Zhejiang…