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Chemours and Honeywell collaborating on pilot program to recycle and reclaim refrigerants

The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) and Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced the launch of a new pilot program to enable qualified companies to recycle and reclaim R-448A, also known as Honeywell Solstice N40, and R-449A, also known as Opteon…

Sulzer helps build world-scale renewable-fuels plant in Malaysia

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) will support Vandelay Ventures Sdn Bhd in the construction of a world-scale production facility for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and renewable diesel. Thanks to this partnership, Sabah Maju Jaya Renewable Energy Industrial Complex (SMJREIC) in…

Chevron Phillips Chemical and QatarEnergy to construct integrated polymers facility on U.S. Gulf Coast

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) and QatarEnergy announced that they are proceeding with the construction of an $8.5 billion integrated polymers facility in Orange, Texas, expected to create more than 500 full-time jobs and approximately 4,500…

LG Chem to construct new plants for pyrolysis oil and aerogels production

LG Chem (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it will begin construction of a pyrolysis oil plant by investing about 310 billion KRW by 2024 at the Seongmun National Industrial Complex in Dangjin, Chungnam to establish a plastic circulating economy while…

Air Products and Mabanaft to build Germany’s first large-scale green-hydrogen import terminal

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Mabanaft, through its subsidiary Oiltanking Deutschland, announced their intention to build Germany's first large-scale, green energy import terminal in the Port of Hamburg. This joint development agreement is an important step towards the development…

Chevron Phillips Chemical breaks ground on polyalphaolefin expansion in Beringen, Belgium

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 begins production of diesel-emissions-reduction product

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 affiliate S-OIL to build one of the world’s largest petrochemical crackers in South Korea

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 begins commercial-scale ceramides production

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…

Cepsa announces bio-based chemicals capacity expansion at JV in Indonesia

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.…