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BASF starts up new polyarylsulfone production line in South Korea
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has started up a new production line for its high-temperature resistant thermoplastic Ultrason (polyarylsulfone) at its site in Yeosu, South Korea. With the new line, the global annual capacity for Ultrason will increase by 6,000…
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Saudi Aramco and Total confirm intent to build world-scale petrochemicals complex in Jubail
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) signed a memorandum of understanding to build a giant petrochemical complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The complex will be integrated downstream of the SATORP refinery, a joint venture…
Motiva Enterprises signs MoUs with TechnipFMC and Honeywell UOP
Motiva Enterprises LLC (Houston; www.motiva.com), a wholly-owned downstream oil and gas subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, recently signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) worth around $8–10 billion with U.S. companies Honeywell UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) and TechnipFMC plc, in a…
WorleyParsons completes acquisition of M+W Group assets in Germany
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) announced the completion of the strategic acquisition of the Ludwigshafen and Schwarzheide offices of the M+W Group in Germany. The business acquired provides engineering services supporting the world-scale facilities of the chemical companies in…
Evonik to expand production capacity for methacrylate crosslinkers in Mobile
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is expanding its production capacities for methacrylate crosslinkers of the Visiomer brand. To this end, the methacrylates business line has made an investment in the low single-digit million-euro range at the Mobile site (Alabama,…
Statoil selects Wood for Mongstad refinery FEED work
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) is delivering front-end engineering design (FEED) for Statoil’s Mongstad refinery near Bergen, Norway, as part of a new contract secured under an existing framework agreement. Effective immediately, the scope of the contract includes the design,…
Stamicarbon wins contract for Hubei Sanning urea plant
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group (www.mairetecnimont.com), and Hubei Sanning Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd have signed contracts for the licensing of technology and the delivery of proprietary equipment for a grass…
Borealis to consider building ethyl vinyl acetate plant in China
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) will study the feasibility to build an ethylene vinyl acetate/advanced polymer asset for specialty applications in China. This potential investment would support Borealis long-term strategy to be a truly global petrochemicals company that continues to…
Messer invests in expanded CO2 production in Bulgaria and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) announced that it has invested a total of 2.85 million euros in two new production facilities in Bulgaria and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Both of them have now gone into operation. In the Bulgarian village of Katunitsa, Messer…