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Linde Expands Specialty Gases Facility in South Africa

March 10, 2010 | Deepti Ramesh

Linde says its Linde Gases division has expanded and upgraded its specialty gases production plant at Johannesburg, South Africa. The €1.12-million investment involved a complete re-engineering of the existing site, to better support the growing demands...

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Ras Laffan Olefins Set to Start This Month

Operations at the Ras Laffan Olefins Co. (RLOC) ethylene unit in Ras Laffan, Qatar are expected to start this month, according to Chevron, parent of one of the joint venture partners in the project....

Dow Plans Polyol Blends Plant in Saudi Arabia

Dow Formulated Systems, a business unit of Dow Chemical that makes polyurethane and epoxy systems, says it plans to build and operate a plant at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia under a...

Huntsman and Zamil Complete Ethyleneamines JV in Saudi Arabia

Huntsman and Zamil Group (Riyadh) say they have completed construction of a previously announced ethyleneamines joint-venture plant at Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The 27,000-m.t./year plant, which will be operated by Arabian Amines Co., a 50-50 jv, is undergoing...

Arch Expands Logistics Agreement

Arch Chemicals has expanded to the scope of its service agreement with Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation (OL&T; Danbury, CT) to include Arch's operations in Europe, the...

Reliance Industries Ups Bid for LyondellBasell

Reliance Industries has increased its bid by $1 billion to $14.5 billion for a controlling stake in LyondellBasell, local sources familiar with the situation say. Reliance declined to comment. The offer would give Reliance a minority stake in LyondellBasell...

Egyptian Firm Picks Univation's PE Process for Three Production Lines

The plants will form part of a major chemical complex....

KBR to Revamp Nigerian Cracker

KBR has been awarded a contract by Eleme Petrochemicals Co. (Port Harcourt, Nigeria) to revamp the company's 1995-vintage 550,000 m.t./year ethylene plant at Eleme, near Port Harcourt. Eleme is a subsidiary of Indorama Group (Jakarta). The plant was...

Honam Plans Big Expansion of Yeosu Petchems Complex

Honam Petrochemical plans to spend won530 billion ($456.2 million) to expand its Yeosu, Korea petrochemical complex, CW has learned. The company will hike the capacity of its cracker from 750,000 m.t./year of ethylene to 1 million m.t./year and build new...

Indian Firm Plans PTA Venture in Oman

The unit will consume locally produced para-xylene....

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