Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the polyalphaolefin (PAO) unit at its Beringen facility in Belgium. The ceremony was witnessed by His Excellency U.S. ambassador Adler, the Flemish minister of Economy,…
OMV Petrom S.A. (Bucharest, Romania) has begun production of AdBlue, an essential product for reducing emissions of diesel engines. In the first phase, AdBlue will be sold in OMV and Petrom filling stations and starting next year it will be…
Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) is making its biggest ever investment in South Korea to develop one of the world’s largest refinery-integrated petrochemical steam crackers through its S-OIL affiliate, in line with the company’s strategy to maximize the crude to chemicals…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has started manufacturing commercial quantities of ceramides - a special class of lipids - at its site in Dossenheim near Heidelberg in Germany. Maximizing capacity utilization at the Dossenheim site provides Evonik with further flexibility and…
Sinarmas Cepsa Pte Ltd (SCPL) and its parent companies, the chemicals business of Cepsa (Madrid, Spain) and agribusiness Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand the production of bio-based chemicals at SCPL’s site in Lubuk Gaung, Indonesia.…
Pertamina Power Indonesia (Pertamina NRE), Keppel Infrastructure, through Keppel New Energy Pte. Ltd., and Chevron Corp., through Chevron New Energies International Pte. Ltd. (Chevron New Energies), have signed a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) to explore the development of selected green…
INVISTA (Wichita, Kan.) announced that its nylon site in South Carolina hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new nylon polymer facility, a milestone that represents the site’s transformation to a global-scale nylon 6,6 production facility. The highly anticipated 90,000-square-foot facility…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for September 2022 (most recent available) fell for the third consecutive month, following after a long string of increases between November 2020 and June 2022. For the September preliminary data,…
This episode of the CE Podcast features Honeywell UOP Chief Technology Officer Gavin Towler discussing the current state of key energy-transition technologies. Towler talks with Chemical Engineering magazine senior editor Scott Jenkins about hydrogen generation and storage, carbon capture and…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) has acquired HydroThane Holding BV, an engineering company specialized in biological technologies for the treatment of industrial wastewater streams. The biogas produced through this technology can be further valorized after biochemical and chemical desulfurization process, part of…