Petrochemicals

Lummus Technology announced that Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co. Ltd has selected its technology for use in a new 400 000 tpy alkylation unit.

TotalEnergies and Honeywell have announced a strategic agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling.

Technip Energies to design commercial unit for Encina to produce circular chemicals from plastic waste.

New ABB study on industrial transformation unveils critical relationship between digitalisation and sustainability.

A new BASF production plant for the intermediate 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) at the Ludwigshafen Verbund site started regular operations in 4Q21.

Lummus Technology’s Green Circle business, along with Synthos S.A., has reached a milestone in the development of bio-butadiene technology for the production of sustainable rubber.

Honeywell has introduced a new solution for producing renewable naphtha for petrochemical production.

Shell Catalysts & Technologies’ C2 FE selective hydrogenation catalyst was used at the 750 000 tpy heavy-feed grassroots ethylene plant in Daesan, South Korea.

TOYO has been awarded a contract from a newly-established Chinese subsidiary of Polyplastics Co., Ltd. to construct a polyacetal plant in Nantong, China.

The API recently announced that Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth will serve as Chairman of API’s Board of Directors for a two-year term.

BASF has enhanced the company’s portfolio of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate with the introduction of the Lupranat® ZERO – a greenhouse gas-neutral aromatic isocyanate.

SABIC has signed an agreement to purchase Clariant’s 50% stake in Scientific Design – a catalyst producer and licensor of process technologies.

A mild start to this winter’s heating season has caused US propane prices to decline from the highest starting prices since 2014.

The companies have signed an MoU to commercialise and accelerate the adoption of RDR technology in a bid to significantly reduce GHG emissions in steam cracking plants.

Sulzer Chemtech will provide its SuRe™ BTX technology to recover high-value circular petrochemicals downstream of Encina’s mixed plastics catalytic conversion process.