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Ineos and Sinopec sign three significant petrochemical deals valued at $7 billion total

INEOS (London) and Sinopec (Beijing, China) signed three back-to-back deals worth a combined value of $7 billion.   These landmark agreements are expected to generate a combined turnover of around $10bn from    7 million tons of capacity. The three agreements will…

Black & Veatch joins Australian Hydrogen Council

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) has joined the Australian Hydrogen Council (AHC) as part of its efforts to accelerate the global shift to zero emission energy and speed the development of a global hydrogen energy economy. “As a leading…

CP Kelco to expand biogums production capacity in the U.S. and China

CP Kelco (Atlanta, Ga.) has made extensive progress in expanding biogums production capacity at two of its plant facilities:  Okmulgee, Oklahoma, USA and Wulian, China. These expansion initiatives are integral pieces of the company’s significant, multi-year investment program focused on…

LG Chem and GS Caltex announce 3-hydroxypropionic acid pilot plant, MOU for BDO technology

LG Chem Ltd. and GS Caltex (both Seoul, South Korea) are establishing a pilot plant to develop a white-bio ecosystem and commercialize bio raw materials following the announcement of their joint development agreement last year. LG Chem’s CEO Hak Cheol…

Cariflex breaks ground in Singapore for world’s largest polyisoprene latex plant

Cariflex Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), a wholly owned subsidiary of DL Chemical Co., broke ground at a 6.1-hectare site in Jurong Island, Singapore. Cariflex will be constructing the world’s largest and Singapore’s first polyisoprene latex plant on this site. Driven by…

Dow and Al-Hejailan Group to jointly build new MDEA plant in Saudi Arabia

Dow (Midland, Mich) and the Al-Hejailan Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a joint venture to design, build and operate a methyl diethanolamine (MDEA) plant in the PlasChem Park in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The joint…

Milliken announces production expansion in Germany

Milliken & Company (Spartanburg, S.C.) is expanding the facilities and capacity it acquired last March via its purchase of Germany’s Zebra-chem GmbH. Zebra-chem is a specialty compounder and chemicals company that makes additive and blowing agent concentrates for polyolefins, PVC and engineering…

Wacker to build new silicone plant in at Charleston, Tenn. production complex

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) is preparing to build a new silicone production complex at its Charleston site in Tennessee. The Munich-based chemical group has already started a feasibility study. In a first step, it is planned to build production…

WeylChem invests in upgrades at glyoxyl plant in Lamotte, France

The WeylChem Group of Companies (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is set to invest around 15 million euros in upgrading its Glyoxal production in Lamotte, France. A process consolidation based on state-of-the-art equipment is going to increase production volumes by approximately…

Dow and Valoregan to build hybrid plastics-recycling plant in France

Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced an agreement with French recycling company Valoregen to contribute to building the largest single hybrid recycling site in France, to be owned and operated by Valoregen. This accompanies Dow’s recent plans to build an advanced recycling…