Brightmark LLC (San Francisco, Calif.) announced plans to construct an advanced plastics renewal facility for the Parkes Special Activation Precinct in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Brightmark is also exploring the construction of circular plastics plants in Europe (in partnership…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide professional services to Shell Global Solutions International B.V. for hydrogen liquefaction development. KBR will provide technical solutions as part of concept studies to advance technology for large…
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Luxembourg) began commercial sales from a new reactor for carbon black at Ravenna in Northern Italy. The new production line, which has a production capacity of 25,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), produces both specialty and…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is building a new world-scale production plant for alkylethanolamines at the Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. After the planned start-up in 2024, the company will increase the global annual production capacity of its alkylethanolamines portfolio containing,…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) said that it is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company…
Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India) , the leading Indian Global EPC and turnkey project management company, announced that it has been selected by Fertilisers And Chemicals Travancore Ltd. (FACT), Kochi, which is expanding its NPK Fertilizer capacity. The project involves…
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and Oriental Energy Company Ltd. jointly announced that a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility with an annual output capacity of 1 million tons will be built in Maoming, Guangdong Province in China. The new…
hte GmbH – the high throughput experimentation company (Heidelberg, Germany) was selected last year by Gevo Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) to advance their understanding of the catalytic dehydration of biogenic isobutanol to form isobutylene. This is a key step in the chemical…
Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond, Va.) has completed its phase 3 expansion to add Gasoline Performance Additives (GPA) blending capabilities at its Singapore Chemical Additive Manufacturing Facility. The expansion is in line with Afton’s ‘Made In’ strategy that focuses on effective…
The Compound Company (Enschede, the Netherlands), a leading developer and manufacturer of compounds, announced it has acquired the production site, product portfolio and customer base for Exxelor polymer resins from ESSO Deutschland GmbH, ExxonMobil in Cologne, Germany. The acquisition will…