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U.S. and global chemical production finished the year on upswing, ACC says

According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) trended higher by 0.1% in December, following a revised 0.5% gain in November. In the U.S., the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index…

Stamicarbon awarded a licensing and equipment supply contracts for an ultra-low-energy urea melt plant in China

Stamocarbon, the nitrogen technology licensor of the MAIRE engineering group, was awarded by Jiangsu Huachang Chemical Co.  licensing and equipment supply contracts for a urea melt plant in China. The plant located in Zhangjiagang City of Jiangsu province in China…

Technip Energies awarded FEED contract for Viking CCS project in the U.K.

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the Viking CCS project, the Humber-based CO2 transportation and storage network led by Harbour Energy, together with partner bp. Located in the Humber, the most industrialized area of…

Lhyfe to build green hydrogen plant in northern Germany

Lhyfe (Paris, France) is building hydrogen production plant in Germany, in Brake (Unterweser). The site project is located on land in the harbor area of Niedersachsen Ports (NPorts), the largest public seaport operator in Germany. The plant would be the…

Arkema starts up expanded elastomers plant in France

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has successfully started its new Pebax  elastomer unit at the Serquigny plant in France. This new unit, designed with the latest advancements in industrial processes, can produce both the bio-circular Pebax  Rnew  and classical Pebax  elastomer…

Chevron Lummus Global and Hongrun Petrochemical commission world’s largest all-hydroprocessing white oil unit

Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG) announced the successful commissioning of the world's largest white oil hydroprocessing unit for Hongrun Petrochemical (Weifang) Co., Ltd. in Weifang, Shandong Province, China. The new plant, which utilizes CLG's ISODEWAXING and ISOFINISHING technologies, consists of…

Evonik expands production of precipitated silica at Charleston site

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has invested in a plant expansion for precipitated silica at its site in Charleston, South Carolina. The new line is satisfying the high demand in particular from the tire industry in North America and makes…

Fujifilm starts up new production site for CMP slurries

Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that its new production facility for Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) slurries, a basic material used in semiconductor manufacturing process, at its Kumamoto site has begun full-scale operation. The new facility was installed by Fujifilm Electronic Materials…

Linde starts up supply of clean hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide to Celanese

Linde plc (Woking, U.K.) is supplying Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) with carbon dioxide captured from its state-of-the-art carbon monoxide and hydrogen production facility at Clear Lake, Texas. Celanese will use the captured carbon dioxide and resulting clean hydrogen, along with…

BASF and Envision Energy enter a collaboration to develop e-methanol technologies

BASF Process Catalysts announced a new collaboration with Envision Energy, a leading green technology provider of comprehensive net zero solutions. The collaboration aims to further develop the conversion of green hydrogen and CO2 into e-methanol through an advanced, dynamic process…