Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced a significant capacity extension of its ferric sulfate water treatment chemicals production line in Goole, U.K. The additional 70,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) capacity investment helps meet the growing demand for coagulants due to…
With the approval of funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has come a major step closer in building a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer. In…
Orion S.A. (Luxembourg) celebrated the completion of its first greenfield project – a carbon black plant in eastern China that will supply fast-growing demand in Asia. The facility in the city of Huaibei in Anhui province will produce carbon black…
thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology GmBh, a fully owned subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany), has signed a contract with Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) to license a urea granulation unit in Karratha, Western Australia. The project in Karratha is being…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) announced the official opening of a new world-scale ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) facility located in Ningbo, China, together with its joint venture partner SINOPEC. The facility has a nameplate capacity of 600,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr).…
ADM Co. (Chicago) and Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio) announced the opening of their joint venture soybean processing complex, Green Bison Soy Processing, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Green Bison facility in Spiritwood is North Dakota's first dedicated soybean processing…
AGC, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that AGC Wakasa Chemicals Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of AGC that conducts CDMO for synthetic agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, held a ceremony on November 17, 2023 for the completion of a new large-scale production line at its…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has been awarded a licensing and equipment supply contract for a fertilizer plant of PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang (Pusri) in the Palembang District of South Sumatra from WUHUAN ENGINERING CO., LTD. “Wuhuan) in China. TOYO will…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it has made the final investment decision to build the company's first industrial-scale catalytic advanced recycling demonstration plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Using LyondellBasell's proprietary MoReTec technology, this plant will be the…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for September 2023 (the most recent available) fell compared to the August value, reversing the slight increase that was observed from the cycle prior to that. The CEPCI has been…