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Recently Published Books for the CPI: July 2022

The following recently published books may be of relevance to professionals in the chemical process industries (CPI) Unique Methods for Analyzing Failures and Catastrophic Events. By Anthony Sofronas, Wiley-VCH Publishing, 2022, 352 pages, $125.00. Hydrogen-Assisted Direct Reduction of Iron Oxides.…

Neste makes €1.9-billion investment for expansion of renewable-products refinery in Rotterdam

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has made the final investment decision to invest into new renewable products production capacity in Rotterdam. The decision is based on demand for renewable products growing substantially with customers' higher climate ambitions. Neste’s current 1.4 million…

Ineos to significantly expand its high-viscosity PAO plant in LaPorte

INEOS (London) announced that Ineos Oligomers is executing a phased 50% expansion of its LaPorte, Texas, High Viscosity (HV) PAO unit, fully effective by mid-2025.  The unit was initially built with a nameplate capacity of 20,000 metric ton per year…

Showa Denko begins development of microwave-based chemical-recycling technology for plastics

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo) and Microwave Chemical Co., Ltd. (Osaka) have started joint development of a new microwave-based chemical recycling technology to directly transform used plastic into basic chemical feedstock. The two companies are implementing various steps to achieve…

Vattenfall and Preem enter feasibility phase for green-hydrogen network connecting to refineries on Sweden’s west coast

After the initial announcement of their hydrogen partnership, Vattenfall AB and Preem AB (both Stockholm, Sweden) will now enter into a feasibility phase to assess the possibility of accelerating the development of a value chain connecting offshore wind and hydrogen…

BASF to increase U.S. production capacity for specialty amines

BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.) will increase the production capacity for key specialty amines manufactured at its Geismar, Louisiana site. After the completed production capacity expansion of a flexible world-scale production asset by mid-2023, BASF will be able to produce…

Air Products and Gunvor planning green-hydrogen import terminal in Rotterdam

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Gunvor Petroleum Rotterdam (GPR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gunvor Group (Gunvor), have signed a joint development agreement for an import terminal in Rotterdam. The agreement responds to the accelerating demand for green energy sources…

Indorama licenses “single-step” MTBE process for new plant in China

Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) has signed a license agreement with Shandong Binhua New Material Co., Ltd. (Binhua), a subsidiary of Befar Group, a leading petroleum and chemical enterprise in China, to build, own and operate a propylene oxide…

thyssenkrupp to build three major polymer plants for Merions in Turkey

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG’ (Dortmund, Germany) subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a contract to build a new world-scale polymer plant for Merinos Hali Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S., Turkey. The plant will use Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s proprietary patented MTR (Melt-to-Resin) technology to produce…

Neste acquires European rights to Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology for plastics recycling

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has purchased the European rights to the Alterra Energy (Akron, Ohio) liquefaction technology, further solidifying the company’s efforts to advance chemical recycling. Alterra Energy is a U.S.-based company that has developed a proprietary thermochemical solution for…