Maire Tecnimont inaugurates polymers re-processing and upcycling plant in the UAE
Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary, NextChem, has inaugurated a new re-processing and upcycling plant for polymers in the Kezad Industrial Zone in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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INEOS O&P Europe has announced a €30 million investment in the conversion of its plant in Lillo, at the Port of Antwerp, to enable its existing capacity to produce either monomodal or bi-modal grades of HDPE.
CF Industries has entered into a commercial agreement with ExxonMobil to capture and permanently store up to 2 million tpy of CO2 emissions from its manufacturing complex in Louisiana, US.
The companies have agreed to build a renewable plastics supply chain utilising bio-based hydrocarbons for the production of styrene monomer and its mass-balanced renewable plastics derivatives, i.e. acrylonitrile butadiene styrene.
BASF has introduced CircleStar™ – a dehydration catalyst that processes renewable feedstocks and is capable of achieving a 99.5% selectivity for ethanol-to-ethylene conversion.
In April 2022, Neste announced that it would merge the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Neste Engineering Solutions Oy, into Neste Corp. The plan has now been completed, and the merger will take place on 1 October 2022.
W. R. Grace & Co., an independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst and polypropylene technology, has licensed its UNIPOL® PP technology to Red Sea National Petrochemicals Co.
Lummus Technology has announced that Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. has selected its Novolen polypropylene technology for a new unit in Shandong Province, China.
Asia will lead the global purified terephthalic acid (PTA) industry capacity additions between 2022 and 2026 with a share of 77%, driven by new-build and expansion projects, forecasts GlobalData.
Nuberg EPC has announced that it has been selected by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd for the construction of 400 tpd sulfur recovery unit.
