Petrochemicals

MOL's €1.3 billion polyol complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary, boasting a capacity of around 200 000 tpy of polyol, has been inaugurated.

Honeywell has announced a transformational new naphtha to ethane and propane (NEP) process.

This agreement formalises an important alliance aimed at strengthening collaboration and technical exchanges between both organisations and its members.

BASF and International Process Plants (IPP) have entered an agreement to market ammonia, methanol and melamine plants located at BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

hte has been awarded a contract by the technical university ETH Zurich to provide a high throughput test system designed for CO2 electroreduction.

INEOS Oxide and LyondellBasell (LYB) have completed the sale of LYB’s Ethylene Oxide & Derivatives (EO&D) business and associated production facilities located in Bayport, Texas, US, to INEOS.

Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. (HPL) for digitalisation services at HPL’s ethylene plant in West Bengal, India.

LyondellBasell (LYB) has secured a location for an integrated plastic waste recycling hub south of an existing industrial park in Knapsack, Germany.

Axens Regional Operations Center (ROC) Americas has announced plans to relocate and expand Axens North America, Inc. and Petro-Chem Development Co., Inc. offices.

Technip Energies and Anellotech have signed a global joint development agreement to work cooperatively to further develop and then license Anellotech’s Plas-TCat™ process.

LyondellBasell has announced the opening of the plastics recycling joint venture (JV) in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province in Southern China with Genox Recycling (Genox).

The new cumene unit is part of a grassroots petrochemical and polymers expansion at IndianOil's complex in Paradip, India.

KBR has announced that it has been awarded a contract by SABIC Fujian Petrochemicals to license KBR's phenol technology in China.

The transaction allows NextChem Tech to increase its interest from 51% to 85% of the share capital of both companies.

In the processing run, Neste produced high-quality raw material for new plastics and chemicals.