Idemitsu invests US$114 mn in e-methanol producer HIF Global May 15, 2024 // 0 Comments Japanese energy firm Idemitsu Kosan has invested US$114 million in pioneering e-fuel producer, HIF Global, as part of its [...]
Chemanol to set up US$112 mn speciality chemicals facility in Jubail May 13, 2024 // 0 Comments Saudi-based methanol Chemicals Company (Chemanol) has signed a plot allocation agreement with Jubail and Yanbu Industrial [...]
Borealis invests EUR4.5 mn in cracker in Finland for sustainable materials April 23, 2024 // 0 Comments Chemical firm Borealis has announced a EUR4.5 million investment in the cracker furnaces of its olefins unit in Porvoo, [...]
OQ completes infrastructure for Röhm’s MMA plant in US April 22, 2024 // 0 Comments In a significant development, OQ Chemicals has achieved mechanical completion in its ‘Propel’ project, short for [...]
Clariant launches new propane dehydrogenation catalyst April 22, 2024 // 0 Comments Swiss chemical firm Clariant has launched Catofin 312, its latest propane dehydrogenation catalyst. The new catalyst [...]
US researchers develop reactor to create propylene from gas March 26, 2024 // 0 Comments Researchers at the University of Michigan in the US have developed a new chemical reactor that creates propylene from [...]
BASF breaks ground on methyl glycols facility in China March 25, 2024 // 0 Comments German chemical firm BASF says it has broken ground on a methyl glycols (MG) plant at its site in Zhanjiang, China. The new [...]
Sibur reorganises plastics/rubber business to focus on Russia March 25, 2024 // 0 Comments In order to further develop industries that consume polypropylene, polyethylene and synthetic rubbers, Russian petchem firm [...]
Clariant/Lummus awarded contract for isobutane dehydrogenation plant in China March 22, 2024 // 0 Comments Swiss chemical firm Clariant and its process partner Lummus Technology have been selected by Huizhou Boeko Materials to [...]
New Energy to produce bio-sourced ethylene for jet fuel and Dow’s renewable plastics March 19, 2024 // 0 Comments New Energy Blue, the clean-energy developer of lowest-carbon biofuel and biochemicals from crop residues, says it has [...]