BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) signed a joint development agreement with China BlueChemical Ltd. (China BlueChemical), a leading natural gas producer, and the chemical engineering company Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd. (Wuhuan Engineering) to promote low-carbon development and utilization of marine gas…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Trillium Renewable Chemicals have signed a letter of intent to develop the supply chain for bio-based acrylonitrile (bio-ACN). Trillium will supply Solvay with bio-ACN from Trillium’s planned commercial asset, and Solvay will evaluate bio-ACN for…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it will invest more than $10 million (9 million euros) to expand production of automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) coatings at its site in Weingarten, Germany. Expected to be complete in the second quarter 2022,…
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully concluded its first series of trial runs processing liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. After kicking the series off with its first-ever industrial scale trial run with liquefied waste plastic in…
Plastic Energy and TotalEnergies have announced a new agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling. Under this agreement, Plastic Energy plans to build a second advanced recycling plant in Sevilla, Spain, in addition to their existing operational plant,…
Wastefront AS (Oslo, Norway) announced Technip Energies (Paris, France) as its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partner for the build of its £100 million tire-recycling plant in Sunderland. Technip Energies was selected following a competitive Project Analysis and Execution Pathway…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston; www.ascendmaterials.com) signed an investment agreement to construct a new hexamethylene diamine (HMD) and specialty chemicals plant in Lianyungang, China in the Xuwei New Area Park. The new plant will be Ascend’s first chemical production facility and…
U.S. chemical manufacturers reported that persistent, and in some cases worsening, supply-chain problems had a detrimental impact on their operations. According to survey results released today by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the impacts of supply chain…
Veolia has announced plans for its first electric-vehicle (EV) battery recycling facility in the U.K., which will have the capacity to process 20% of the U.K.’s end of life electric vehicle batteries by 2024. Many of the materials required for…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) is expanding its interests in biofuels that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, acquiring a 49.9% stake in Biojet AS, a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction…