CATALYSTS AND LICENSING

Arkema begins nylon-10,10

1:04 PM MDT | May 21, 2013

Arkema has launched production of Rilsan T, a biobased nylon-10,10 processed from castor oil, at the company’s production facility at Serquigny...

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Canergy chooses Proesa process technology for CA plant

Canergy (Brawley, CA) says it has chosen Beta Renewables’s Proesa process technology for a 25-million gal/year Imperial Valley, CA, cellulosic biofuels facility set to begin construction in first-quarter...

BASF licenses Genomatica’s renewable BDO technology

BASF has announced that it has licensed Genomatica’s (San Diego) biobased 1,4-butanediol (BDO) process technology and aims to build a large-scale BDO manufacturing plant. BASF is a leading BDO manufacturer, with 535,000 m.t./year of capacity. The...

Chinese firm selects UOP technology for aromatics complex in Brunei

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LyondellBasell licenses PE technology to China

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Alpek licenses PTA to M&G, pays $350M for PET offtake

M&G Group (Tortona, Italy) has licensed Alpek’s IntegRex technology for its planned 1.2-million m.t./year purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant at Corpus Christi, TX, the company announced 16 April....

Honeywell's UOP methanol-to-olefin technology licensed in China

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Sasol orders compressors, licenses process technology

In a bid to beat the crowd of ethane cracker projects destined for the United States, Sasol has ordered the main ethylene compressor trains of its Lake Charles, LA, $5–7-billion ethane cracker project, the company says. The compressor trains will be...

Monsanto licenses Dow’s Enlist corn trait

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Mitsui Chemicals-Lotte Chemical JV opens polypropylene catalyst plant in Korea

Mitsui Chemicals says that Lotte Mitsui Chemicals (Yosu, South Korea), a 50-50 joint venture with Lotte Chemical (Seoul), started up a previously announced polypropylene (PP) catalyst plant at Yosu on 1 April. Plans for the jv project were first announced in...

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