Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) says that Shandong Luqing Petrochemical Co. accepted performance of China’s first standalone Honeywell UOP C4 Oleflex process unit, producing 170,000 metric tons per year of isobutylene. The unit, located in Shandong Province on China’s…
Akzo Nobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has completed phase one of the €2.5-million expansion of its performance coatings plant in Cikarang, Indonesia. The investment will increase capacity at the facility by 40%, and will help the company meet growing…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) announced the startup of operations at its brand-new color pigments facility in Augusta, Ga. Huntsman has invested more than $172 million in the development of the new production plant, the first of its kind…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a two-year contract from Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP) to provide general engineering services (GES) at SATORP’s Jubail Industrial City II facilities in Saudi Arabia. Under the terms…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) has begun the commercial startup of its new titanium dioxide (TiO2) line at its Altamira plant in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Chemours reached mechanical completion of the line in December 2015. The company…
Ineos (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has announced that Ineos Oligomers made a Final Investment Decision (FID) to build a new world-scale linear alpha-olefin (LAO) unit at the Ineos site at Chocolate Bayou, Tex. The LAO unit capacity will be 420,000 metric…
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Dow Corning Corp. announced that Robert D. (Bob) Hansen, chairman, chief executive officer and president, has announced his intention to retire from Dow Corning Corp. upon the completion of Dow’s ownership restructure transaction with…
Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) and Saft, a designer and manufacturer of advanced industrial batteries, announced that, following the signature of an agreement between the companies, Total filed a friendly tender offer on all of the issued and outstanding shares in…
Air-pollution-control company Anguil Environmental Systems, (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.anguil.com) is announcing the creation of a new water-treatment division named Anguil Aqua Systems. The new initiative will leverage Anguil’s extensive engineering experience and process knowledge. Anguil has spent the past three years…
Wholesale trade in chemicals expanded 0.7% to $10.02 billion in March, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). “At the same time, inventories fell back 2.4% in March and,…