Circularix to build and operate PET recycling plants
HPC Industries LLC and Macquarie Group's Commodities and Global Markets group have formed a joint venture, Circularix, to produce recycled polyethylene terephthalate.
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BASF and MAN Energy Solutions enter into partnership
BASF and MAN Energy Solutions have entered into a strategic partnership to pursue the construction of an industrial-scale heat pump at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Lummus Digital partners with LACC
Lummus Digital has announced an agreement with LACC to develop AI powered remote performance monitoring for an ethane cracker unit.
Lummus announces successful start-up of CATOFIN PDH unit
Lummus Technology has announced the commissioning and start-up of a PDH unit at Shandong Ruize Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.’s complex in Zibo City, Shandong Province, China.
Indorama Ventures enters into license agreement with Shandong Binhua New Material Co. Ltd
Indorama Ventures has signed a license agreement with Shandong Binhua New Material Co. Ltd to build, own and operate a propylene oxide, t-butanol and t-butyl methyl ether co-production unit.
INEOS starts up LV PAO plant
INEOS Oligomers has started up the world’s largest single train Low Viscosity Polyalphaolefin (LV PAO) plant at its Chocolate Bayou facility in Texas.
Vattenfall and Preem to investigate large-scale decarbonisation using wind and hydrogen
Vattenfall and Preem have entered into a feasibility phase to assess the possibility of accelerating the development of a value chain connecting offshore wind and hydrogen with the refining industry on the Swedish west coast.
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Neste acquires European rights to Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology
Neste has purchased the European rights to Alterra Energy’s liquefaction technology, further solidifying the company’s efforts to advance chemical recycling.
Asia to lead global PVC capacity additions
GlobalData has forecasted that Asia is likely to lead global polyvinyl chloride (PVC) capacity additions with a capacity of 6.35 million tpy by 2026.
GTC Vorro expands with licensing division
The company’s commercial portfolio in the gas production, refining and petrochemical process industries is now served via two divisions.
Hempel launches new product for hydrocarbon passive fire protection
Hempel has developed the Hempafire XTR 100 to provide hydrocarbon passive fire protection to those working at downstream oil and gas facilities.
Honeywell technology selected to modernise Egyptian refinery
Alexandria National Refining and Petrochemical Co. (ANRPC) will upgrade its existing naphtha complex using Honeywell UOP engineering services.
ExxonMobil Advancing Singapore Resid Upgrade Project
ExxonMobil expects to add approximately 20 000 bpd of light, heavy and extra-heavy lubricant base stocks when upgrades at its Singapore integrated refining and petrochemical complex are complete in 2025.
Neste, Covestro and SK geo centric work together to produce polyurethane raw material from renewables
The companies are cooperating to enable the production of a major polyurethane raw material based on renewable materials via mass balance.
Lummus Technology launches new breech-lock heat exchanger closure
Lummus Technology has announced the launch of its Polaris breech-lock closure – a new technological upgrade applicable to its high-pressure heat exchanger equipment.