Solvay has brought the new Veradel Pesu line on-stream at its Panoli plant with an aim to increase the capacity of the thermoplastic material owing to its rising demand in the healthcare and water treatment industries.

Lanxess announced the beginning of capacity expansions at its Krefeld Methol facility.

Milacron announced the completion of an 8,200 m2 expansion in Kunshan City, Jiangsu, China to their hot runner and control systems manufacturing facility and a 2,500 m2 expansion in administration and support staff offices.

For its strategic investment into the propylene oxide value chain, Mol Group is partnering with Evonik and Thyssenkrupp. The company announced that this project would be their largest investment project in 2017-21.

Neste has collaborated with Ravago in order to develop chemical recycling of plastic waste on an industrial scale. With this move, the companies aim to accelerate circularity of materials and improve resource-efficiency in the petrochemical industry.

BASF expands its battery materials business: Together with Toda Kogyo of Japan, the world's biggest chemicals company has launches a joint venture firm for cathode active materials (CAM) for lithium-ion batteries in Japan.

Intergraph has released Cloudworx for Smartplant Isometrics 2012 R1, a valuable add-on to its Smartplant Isometrics solution that allows users to quickly create accurate, as-built piping isometrics directly from a laser scan point cloud.

KBR’s proprietary technology will be used to assist Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL)'s modernisation project at the Visakh refinery in India. Under the terms of the agreement, KBR will provide technology licensing, basic engineering design and proprietary equipment to CLG for the Rose SDA portion of the LC-MAX unit.

Clariant’s Catalysts business aims to expand its presence in the APAC region in order to boost engineering services for the company’s customers in the region. With the opening of the new office in Indonesia the company now has a total of 16 global offices.

Cronus Fertilizers has concluded a $1.5 billion EPC contract for the construction of a fertilizer plant. Construction is expected to begin in the summer of 2015.