Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announced that its Catalysts business unit has intensified its collaboration with Wuxi Xiyuan to support China’s formaldehyde producers with innovative, sustainable offgas treatment. The advanced emission control solution combines a new technology from Wuxi Xiyuan…
Arlanxeo Holding B.V. (Maastricht, the Netherlands; www.arlanxeo.com) is strengthening its market position by investing in its high-performance elastomer products CR (chloroprene rubber) and NBR (nitrile butadiene rubber), laying the foundation for the further increase of production capacity in order to…
Honeywell announced that Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim A.Ş. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology to produce 457,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polymer-grade propylene for a new petrochemicals complex in Ceyhan, Turkey. Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 to John B. Goodenough, the University of Texas at Austin; M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University, State University of New York; and Akira Yoshino, Asahi…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has successfully brought on stream a new production line for ultra-high-performance polyamide 12 powders at the Mont plant in France. The group thus increases its global capacity by over 50% to support the increase in demand…
PT Borneo Alumina Indonesia has appointed a Project Management Consortium (PMC) led by Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) to develop an alumina processing facility, the first of its kind in Indonesia. Black & Veatch provides engineering solutions to…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) plans to build a Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPE) pilot facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The TPE pilot facility emphasizes Trinseo’s growth strategy for TPEs globally and will serve customers in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Footwear and Medical markets.…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and Ecoplast successfully concluded a strategic investment at their plastics recycling location in Wildon, Styria, Austria. Ecoplast processes plastic waste from both domestic and industrial consumers into top quality recyclate and now its existing production…
Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.valmet.com) will deliver biomass pretreatment system to Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India; www.praj.net) for their second-generation biorefinery project which is under execution in India. The delivery is planned for 2020. The order was included in Valmet’s…
The Andersons, Inc. (Maumee, Ohio; www.andersonsinc.com) announced that it and Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio; www.marathompetroleum.com) have merged four ethanol entities into the new legal entity The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC (TAMH). The ethanol facilities involved in the merger include…