Unilever (London; www.unilever.com) and Veolia (Paris; www.veolia.com) announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly work on emerging technologies that will help create a circular economy on plastics across various geographies, starting in India and Indonesia. According to…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced that Air Liquide Advanced Materials Inc. (ALAM) was joined by local officials and members of the community to inaugurate a new specialty-chemical production facility in Upper Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, on October 19, 2018. This…
The industrial uses of onsite-generated ozone are continuously growing. This article outlines applications for ozone in the CPI and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using this gaseous chemical Ozone is most commonly thought of as the stratospheric barrier to…
Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.valmet.com) has agreed with Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) on the delivery of a BioTrac biomass pretreatment system for their sunliquid cellulosic ethanol plant in Romania. The order is included in Valmet's third quarter 2018 orders received.…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced a capital-efficient debottlenecking project for its polyoxymethylene (POM) production unit at the Industriepark Höchst (IPH) facility in Frankfurt, Germany to support the continued growth of its global engineered materials business. “Celanese continues to exhibit…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com), together with China National Chemical Engineering No.7 Construction Co., Ltd., have signed a fertilizer plant construction project for Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corp., an organization owned by the Bangladesh government. This will be…
On 16 October, China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC; Beijing, China; www.cnooc.com.cn) and Shell International Petroleum Company Ltd. (Shell; London, U.K. and The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore their existing collaboration and the…
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR; www.socar.az) , the largest direct foreign investor in Turkey, launched its $6.3-billion SOCAR Turkey Aegean Refinery (STAR Refinery), which will provide a large portion of oil products demand in the local market…
TechnipFMC (Houston; www.technipfmc.com) recently announced the completion of construction of a new ammonia production unit called “Ammonia 4”, executed for Duslo a.s, part of the Agrofert group. The plant successfully passed performance tests in July. This new unit operates in…
Samsung Engineering (Seoul; www.samsungengineering.com) signed an approximately $4-billion contract for the Thai Oil Public Company Limited’s (Thai Oil) Clean Fuel Project (CFP) in Thailand. The order was received with Petrofac Limited (Petrofac) as leader and Saipem S.p.A. (Saipem) as consortium…