Braskem America (Philadelphia, Pa) announced the successful launch of commercial production at its newest polypropylene production line located in La Porte, Texas. Braskem's new line has a production capacity of over 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr; or 1 billion…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its joint venture with Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Hyundai Heavy Industries, FDH JV, has successfully started up two boilers and they began generating steam in the new Al-Zour Refinery at the Kuwait Integrated…
Honeywell announced Zhenhua Petrochemical Co. Ltd will use Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology for propane dehydrogenation to process 1 million metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polymer-grade propylene for a proposed plant in Dongying City, Shandong Province, China. Honeywell UOP will provide…
Hemlock Semiconductor Operations (HSC) announced its acquisition of a DuPont business that makes trichlorosilane (TCS), the primary raw material used in producing the ultra-pure polysilicon HSC supplies to the semiconductor and solar industries. By acquiring the TCS operations in Midland,…
BASF New Business GmbH (BNB), a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), and the leading Korean power-to-gas (P2G) system company G-Philos have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate in P2G projects globally. Up to 2022, BNB…
In order to accommodate higher production volumes of acrylic acid and the associated superabsorbent polymers (SAPs), LG Chem plans to build additional acrylic acid purification units to increase the capacity of its complex in Yeosu, South Korea, to 160,000 tons…
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Mass.; www.thermofisher.com) announced the opening of its new Bioprocessing Collaboration Center (BCC) in St. Louis, Missouri. The facility is adjacent to the company's biologics manufacturing facility, which recently doubled production capacity with a $50 million expansion.…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Bedford, Mass.) and Wood (Aberdeen, Scotland announced a new partnership that will offer Wood’s clients Aspen's Mtell asset performance management (APM) technology for predictive and prescriptive maintenance. The partnership will enable global enterprises to improve the performance…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) and Hydrogen Optimized (Collingwood, Ont., Canada) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly explore the development of large-scale green hydrogen production systems connected to the electrical grid to offer a clean, sustainable, and affordable energy source.…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) will be providing four of its MCR Main Cryogenic Heat Exchangers (MCHEs) for Sonatrach’s GL1Z LNG facility in Arzew, Algeria. The four heat exchangers will each have 1.3 million tons per year production capacity and…