Within the next three years, Braskem will build a new world-class polypropylene (PP) production line located next to the company’s existing production facilities in La Porte, Texas

Pörner Ingenieurgesellschaft concluded a contract for engineering and construction of a Biturox Bitumen Plant in Barauni Refinery in India with Indian Oil Corporation. The scope of services includes licensing, pilot tests, basic engineering, supply of core componets as well as commissioning support and start-up in the next year.

In January the Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company shipped its first 300,000 barrels of oil. The joint-venture is the largest Chinese investment in Saudi-Arabia to date with a total investment of nearly $10 billion.

CB&I has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $ 40 million by DuPont to provide engineering, procurement and construction for an ethane cracking furnace expansion project at Dupont's Sabine River Works ethylene plant in Orange, Texas.

When eating a muesli bar, one doesn’t normally think of explosions – And yet, the f&b industry is full of explosion hazards. Reason enough for foods giant Nestlé to consider an up-to-date explosion prevention solution. The result is both safe and tasty...

Coating Supplier Hempel agreed with the local government of the Russian region Ulyanovsk to build the company's first Russian production facility close to the city of Ulyanovsk, 893 kilometres east of Moscow.

Schütz Industrial Packaging presented a new earthed plastic pallet designed especially for the use in hazardous areas at the Interpack trade fair. This application was previously reserved chiefly for steel pallets.

Songwon Industrial announced that its new pilot plant in Panoli (Gujarat), India has come onstream. The plant serves the country's demand specialty chemicals.

Wison Engineering's non-wholly owned subsidiary in China has been awarded a contract by Zhejiang Petrochemical to deliver nine ethylene cracking furnaces for a 4,000 kt/yr refining and chemical integrated complex.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading global supplier of the biopharmaceutical industry, is introducing a brand-new, scalable range of single-use bags.