LyondellBasell Industries has licensed its Lupotech T and Lupotech A process technologies to Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical (JSPC; Lianyungang, China) for a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant to be built at Lianyungang. “We selected...
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 unit has licensed its methanol-to-olefin (MTO) to Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical (Jiangsu, China) for a project in Lianyungang, in China's Jiangsu Province. Jiangsu Sailboat’s unit is expected to be the largest...
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...
Dow AgroSciences and Monsanto say they have signed royalty-bearing agreements to cross license corn trait technology for weed and insect management. The agreement paves the way for introduction—pending regulatory approvals—of next-generation...
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...
Air Products announced it has licensed its adsorption-based monomer recovery technology to Cryo Technologies (Allentown, PA), a supplier of custom engineered process equipment. The agreement allows Cryo to design and offer the unreacted olefin recovery...
Dow Chemical says it plans to raise as much as $1.5 billion from divestitures over the next 18 months, including sales of its polypropylene licensing and catalysts business and plastic additives business. The polypropylene licensing and catalysts unit sells...
Stronger demand for transportation fuels in emerging economies continues to boost prospects for refinery catalyst makers, although concerns about the strength of global economic recovery has injected uncertainty into 2013 forecasts. As suppliers invest to build capacity to serve high-growth markets in Asia, the Mideast, and South America, opportunities to provide innovative products to address heavier crudes in North America have arisen....
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