To meet growing customer demand in Europe, Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) will increase its European production capacity for neopentyl glycol (NPG). A debottlenecking project for NPG at the Oberhausen, Germany, production site is underway. Oxea has already…
Global Bioenergies (Every, France; www.global-bioenergies.com) announced having reached a new milestone in scaling up its C3 process converting renewable resources into isopropanol and acetone. These two bio-based compounds target large markets in the cosmetics and solvent segments. They can also…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been selected to provide design, engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) support services for the Candelaria Mill Optimization Project (CMOP) at the Candelaria Mining Complex located near the city of Copiapó in…
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has opened its Innovation and Interaction Center (IIC) for 3D Printing at its Tallaght site near Dublin, Ireland. The IIC, which is the first in a new generation of global industrial customer…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract to expand capacity for the manufacture of Tyvek nonwoven materials by DuPont Safety & Construction at its facility in Contern, Luxembourg. Under the terms of the reimbursable contract,…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Hyosung Vietnam Corp. Ltd., has selected Spheripol polypropylene (PP) process technology for a 300,000 metric tons per year plant in Vietnam. “The Spheripol process is the most widely used polypropylene technology in the…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and Xin Feng Ming Group Co., Ltd. entered an agreement to license BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology to Dushan Energy Ltd., a subsidiary of Xinfengming. BP and Xinfengming also signed a memorandum of…
PolyMirae Company Ltd., a a 50/50 joint venture between LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasel.com) and Daelim Industrial (www.daelimchem.co.kr), announced that it would establish a joint venture with SK Advanced in South Korea. The new company will be a joint venture…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has granted a license that allows PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk. (CAP) to expand its existing UNIPOL PP (polypropylene) plant. The world-scale capacity of this UNIPOL PP facility, located in Ciwandan, Indonesia, will be…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) and Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) have concluded an exclusive cooperation agreement on the use of membranes for natural gas processing. The two companies will jointly promote membrane technology – Evonik on the…