Petrochemicals

Zeon Corp. will begin construction of a new production plant for cyclo-olefin polymers (COP) at its business site in Yuka Town, Japan.

MAIRE has announced that NEXTCHEM, through its subsidiary CONSER, has been awarded a licensing and process design package for the deployment of its technologies for the co-production of Dimethyl succinate (DMS) and 1.4-Butanediol (BDO) by a major state-owned chemical player in China.

KBR and Petro Rabigh have announced a strategic 10 year general maintenance services contract covering Petro Rabigh Polymer I and Polymer II plants at Rabigh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

INEOS has announced a €300 million investment supported by French government grants that will deliver the next phase of its Lavera regeneration plan and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 331 000 tpy.

Dangote Industries Ltd has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with XCMG Construction Machinery Co. Ltd in a move aimed at strengthening infrastructure delivery, industrial capacity, and green project development across Africa.

ExxonMobil’s third advanced recycling unit at it's complex in Baytown, Texas, US, is now operational.

BASF’s Intermediates division is set to strengthen supply security for its European customers in the 1,4-butanediol (BDO) value chain through increased production at its BDO plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Borouge, Borealis, Catalytic Finance Foundation, Pelita Mekar Semesta (PMS), and Reciki Solusi Indonesia, are set to establish Indonesia’s first fully integrated circular waste management ecosystem.

Valmet has received orders from Dow to supply turnkey process analytical solutions for its Path2Zero project at its Fort Saskatchewan site in Alberta, Canada.

OQ and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) have signed a Project Development Agreement of a jointly owned petrochemical complex in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (SEZAD), Oman.

Lummus Technology and Sumitomo Chemical have announced the commercial availability of their polymethyl methacrylate chemical recycling (PMMA-CR) technology.

Dow has announced a comprehensive plan to simplify how it operates and streamline its end-to-end processes, targeting at least US$2 billion in near-term operational EBITDA.

Abundia Group has announced that it has appointed Burns & McDonnell as its lead engineer to deliver the FEED package for its first waste-plastics-to-renewable products recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, US.

Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals, and Mitsubishi Chemical have entered into a basic agreement to promote decarbonisation of ethylene production in western Japan.

ADNOC and TAQA have announced the signing of a 27-year Utilities Purchase Agreement to supply critical utilities to the TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone in Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi, UAE.