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Ineos partners with UPM Biofuels for renewable plastics production

INEOS (London; www.ineos.com)  and UPM Biofuels (Helsinki, Finland; www.upmbiofuels.com) have announced a long-term agreement to supply a renewable raw material for new and innovative bio-attributed polymers to be produced at INEOS Köln, Germany. UPM has also partnered with Dow to…

Chevron and Svante studying potential carbon-capture project in California

Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada; www svanteinc.com) announced that Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) commissioned a pre-front end engineering design (pre-FEED) study that will explore the potential for trialing Svante’s technology in Chevron’s operations. The study will evaluate the feasibility and…

Invista wins process technology license for new PTA plant in Turkey

INVISTA’s technology and licensing group, INVISTA Performance Technologies (IPT; www.ipt.invista.com), and SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş. (SASA) signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) on the 3rd of February 2020, confirming the selection of IPT as the purified terephthalic acid (PTA) licensor…

Air Liquide signs three new gas-supply contract for BASF in Antwerp

Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have recently signed three new long-term contracts in the Antwerp basin (Belgium). Leveraging on five existing onsite production plants in the Antwerp basin, Air Liquide has entered into a new…

Dell and Eni start up world’s most powerful industrial supercomputer

Dell Technologies (www.delltechnologies.com) has announced the startup of the world’s most powerful industrial supercomputer, the HPC5, which was powered at Eni S.p.A.’s (Milan, Italy; www.eni.com) Green Data Centre. The drive to create environmentally sound and sustainable futuristic performance brought Dell…

Showa Denko launches AI-based system to evaluate capital investment decisions

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo; www.sdk.co.jp) has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) based search system to look efficiently for information useful for capital investment evaluation from the company’s knowledge databases. This new search engine uses an AI system named “KIBIT,”…

Linde wins services contract for Sibur’s Amur Gas Chemical Complex

Linde (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and site services based on its proprietary technology for the cracker unit at the Amur Gas Chemical Complex operated by Sibur (Moscow, Russia; www.sibur.ru)…

Wood Group sells industrial services business to Kaefer

The Kaefer Group (Bremen, Germany; www.kaefer.com) has acquired Wood’s industrial ser­vices business from John Wood Group PLC (www.woodplc.com) in the UK and Ireland. The business is becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the KAEFER Group. It is planned to merge…

PPG to acquire Chicago-based powder-coatings manufacturer

PPG Industries Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Alpha Coating Technologies, LLC (Alpha), a manufacturer of powder coatings for light industrial applications and heat sensitive substrates. The transaction is expected to close…

Clariant expands production capability for activated bleaching-earth products

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) is working to boost the supply of activated bleaching earths to the edible oil and biofuel markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with additional capacity now on stream in Yuncos, Spain, and an…