Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; Amsterdam; www.nouryon.com) has licensed its carbon disulfide (CS2) manufacturing technology to a leading viscose fibers manufacturer in Indonesia, enabling the manufacturer to raise output of its plant on the island of Sumatra. As part of…
DowDuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dow-dupont.com) Specialty Products division announced it will divest its DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS; www.sustainablesolutions.dupont.com) business to create a new, independent global operations management consulting firm. The new firm will be led and operated by existing DSS management…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Linde plc., has announced the completion of a major investment project at its Geismar, Louisiana facility, bringing a new plant online that will increase carbon monoxide supply to customers in the…
Honeywell announced that Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will use a range of process technology from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) for the second phase of an integrated petroleum-refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province. The complex is…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; Amsterdam; www.nouryon.com) has more than doubled capacity for emulsion-based organic peroxides at its site in Los Reyes, Mexico to meet increased customer demand in the North American polyvinyl chloride (PVC) market. The company introduced emulsion-based…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for Valvoline’s new blending and packaging facility in Zhangjiagang, China. The project is Valvoline’s first plant in China. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd. (HMEL), has selected LyondellBasell’s fifth generation Spheripol polypropylene process technology for a 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) plant in Bathinda, India. “Recognized companies such as HMEL select the Spheripol…
Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) announced that its new U.S.-based linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) unit has achieved beneficial operations — the first of the seven production facilities of Sasol’s Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP) to come online. "Reaching beneficial…
The Circa Group (Melbourne, Australia; www.circagroup.com.au) says that its FC5 commercial demonstration plant is now online, paving the way to a regular supply of Circa’s bio-based solvent Cyrene. A joint venture between Circa and Norwegian pulp and paper company Norske…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) will increase the use of bio-steam at its salt production at Hengelo, in the Netherlands, making the production more sustainable and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The bio-steam, produced by waste-processing company Twence, will allow Nouryon…