Since early April, the BASF-Total steam cracker has been able to produce up to 40% of its ethylene from ethane and another 40% from butane and propane....
Solvay says it has decided to invest an undisclosed sum to build a production unit for the biobased nylon polymer PA6,10 at at Saint-Fons, France. The plant is intended to meet demand from customers seeking eco-friendly products, the company says. The...
BASF and Petronas Chemicals say they will invest a total of $500 million in an integrated aroma ingredients project at the companies’ BASF Petronas Chemicals joint venture site in the Gebeng Industrial Zone at Kuantan, Malaysia....
DuPont is expanding its microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) product lines through an extended agreement with Mingtai Chemical (Bade City, Taiwan), a leading manufacturer of MCC. The agreement includes development, production, distribution, marketing, and sale of...
DSM has opened a manufacturing plant at Geleen, Netherlands, for the production of the company’s antireflective coatings, marketed as KehpriCoat. The coating is primarily targeted at solar applications and is applied on the cover glass of solar modules...
Qatar Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and Distribution Co. (Muntajat; Doha) will, by mid-2013, take over the marketing and distribution of all chemicals and petrochemicals produced in Qatar....
Rosneft (Moscow) and Mitsui & Co. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop jointly Rosneft’s previously announced Far East Petrochemical Co. (Fepco) project near Nakhodka, in Russia’s far east. The world-scale petrochemical complex, in its first stage, will be able to process 3.4 million m.t./year of feedstock, predominantly naphtha....
India has proposed to build a urea manufacturing plant at the petrochemicals hub at Chahbahar, Iran, using natural gas as feedstock, Iranian news agencies report. India has also agreed to provide Iran with financial assistance to develop the Chahbahar port...
ICA Fluor, the construction joint venture of Empresas ICA and Fluor, has been awarded a contract for the construction of a titanium dioxide (TiO2) train at DuPont’s complex at Altamira, Mexico. ICA Fluor will be responsible for construction...
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