Bartec delivered skin effect heating systems into the Kharyaga field, providing engineering, calculation, design, supply, installation, commission, and supervision in frozen Siberian. The target was to assure frost protection and temperature maintaining at the long transfer pipe lines of the oil field in the oil-rich Nenets tundra.

From Idex Health & Science comes a new independent-channel control in a peristaltic pump with the new Ismatec Reglo ICC for laboratory use.

With this new collaboration, Perstorp aims to produce 50,000 tonnes per year and is also planning to increase the production beyond 100,000 tonnes in the future.

Technip completes acquisition of Hummingbird technology from BP Chemicals Limited, a second generation ethanol to ethylene technology. The technology is lower cost and simpler compared to first generation technologies.

The Supervisory Board of Covestro has approved an investment of around $ 1.7 billion to build a new world-scale MDI plant in Baytown, USA. This investment at the existing site in Baytown is the largest single investment in the history of the company.

Materials manufacturer Covestro announced the expansion of their production capacity of the foam component MDI at the site Brunsbüttel.

The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at risk, IHS Markit says.

After successfully concluding the FEED study in June 2018, Borealis has taken the final investment decision for a new, world-scale propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant. The facility with a capacity of 750,000 tonnes per year will be located at the existing production site in Kallo (Antwerp), Belgium. The plant is scheduled to start up in the first half of 2022.

This transformation can be linked to the firm’s recent acquisition by The Carlyle Group and GIC. With a change in name, the company aims to become one of the leading organisations for the global speciality chemicals market.

Sumitomo Chemical held a completion ceremony for its new production line of feed additive methionine at its Ehime Works in Niihama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The investment in the new manufacturing facility represents one of the largest investments made by the company in Japan.