Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) announced the construction of an industrial scale ammonia (NH3) cracking pilot plant in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. When transformed into ammonia, hydrogen can be easily transported over long distances. Using innovative technology, this plant will…
AGC Inc. (Tokyo) has decided to increase its production capacity for fluorochemical products in order to respond to the strong demand for semiconductor-related applications. The expansion will take place at AGC's Chiba Plant (Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan), with operations…
Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced plans to locate its previously announced lithium hydroxide (LiOH) Mega-Flex facility in Chester County, South Carolina. Plans for the facility include an initial investment of at least $1.3 billion to help meet the surging demand…
In response to growing demand, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) is expanding its production and cartridge filling capacities for silicone sealants at its Nünchritz site. The expansion will increase the company’s capability to supply customers, who contract Wacker to produce…
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and Kolon Industries have signed a Joint Development Agreement to develop and industrialize bio-based polyesters and their applications, as well as renewable binder resin formulations. Application areas can cover, for example, packaging, car tire reinforcements,…
Sponsored by Silos and bins fail with a frequency which is much higher than almost any other industrial equipment. Sometimes the failure only involves distortion or deformation which, while unsightly, does not pose a safety or operational hazard. In other…
Sulzer Chemtech’s GTC Technology business has completed the start-up of the world’s largest facility for styrene extraction from pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) derived from naphtha cracking. Located in Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co., Ltd.’s (ZPC) integrated refining and petrochemical complex in…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been selected by Texas Green Fuels (TGF) to commence pre-FEED (Front-End Engineering and Design) for the TGF Galveston Bay clean fuels export project. TGF's export complex will produce industrial-scale, cost-effective, and sustainable fuels such as clean…
Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG) announced that Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL) has selected its ISOFINISHING technology for a catalytic processing unit at the Mumbai Refinery in Mumbai, India. Once complete, the unit will have a capacity of 200,000 metric…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) will invest around €60 million to revamp two Air Separation Units (ASUs) the Group operates in the Tianjin industrial basin, in China. This announcement comes within the context of the renewal of a long-term industrial gases…