The Care Additives business of Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) has announced the completion of a significant expansion of its tertiary amine capacity, primarily DIMLA 1214, at both its Ghent, Belgium, and Pace, Florida, manufacturing sites. The Ghent expansion has…
Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) has received a binding offer from Eurochem Group AG (Zug, Switzerland) for the acquisition of Borealis’ nitrogen business including fertilizer, melamine and technical nitrogen products. The offer values the business on an enterprise value basis…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed an agreement to supply high-purity industrial gases to a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Singapore. Linde will build, own and operate a state-of-the-art SPECTRA generator to produce ultra-high-purity nitrogen and oxygen for…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced that is has started the first worldwide full-scale production of its newly developed polymer based on biobased feedstock. The first commercial volumes are shipped to one of the wastewater treatment plants of the Helsinki Region…
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) is investing €8 million to double its production capacity of formed fiber in Europe. With new machinery in Hylte, Sweden, Stora Enso will meet the increasing demand for formed fiber. The investment further strengthens Stora…
Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands) announced the successful startup of Brunei Fertilizer Industries (BFI)’s new urea melt plant in Brunei. With a nameplate capacity of 3900 metric tons per day (m.t./d), the plant is the largest to be licensed by…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) has begun the process of bringing its wholly owned dairy manure-based renewable natural gas (RNG) project online. Located in northwest Iowa, the project is known as Gevo NW Iowa RNG, LLC (“NW Iowa RNG”), and it…
OQ (Muscat, Oman) is utilizing Univation Technologies' UNIPOL PE Process for its two 440,000-ton/yr polyethylene (PE) plants located within the Liwa Plastics Industrial Complex in Sohar, Oman. OQ started up these two world-scale plants with full-density polyethylene product capabilities allowing…
Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with leading science and technology firm Battelle (Columbus, Ohio) to advance development of a decarbonized regional energy cluster in the tri-state region of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. …
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is developing the first phase of Project Catalina in partnership with Enagás, Naturgy, Fertiberia and Vestas. Project Catalina is a pioneering green hydrogen and green ammonia GW-scale project that aims to bring the abundant renewable resources…