Sabic just signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese businesses and authorities for a new thermoplastics compound facility in Chongquing, Western China.

Jacobs will provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the construction of a vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) emulsions production plant at Jurong Island, Singapore.

Lukoil announced that it has taken the final investment decision on the delayed coker complex at Nizhny Novgorod refinery. The complex includes the construction of the delayed coker unit itself, the diesel hydro treatment unit, the gas fractionation unit, the sulfur and hydrogen production units and other infrastructure. The designed capacity of the complex is 2.1 million tonnes per annum.

New projects from one of Europe's bussiest chemical hubs: BASF has just consigned Air Liquide to supply carbon monoxide to its MDI production plant in Antwerp, Belgium. The Antwerp basin is the largest chemical and petro-chemical basin in Europe, and a major consumer of technical gases...

Jacobs Engineering was selected for a new soda ash project in Jubail/Saudi Arabia. The 800,000 tonnes/year facility will be the first of its kind in the region, company officials stated.

Technip FMC announced that, jointly with Samsung Engineering and Tecnicas Reunidas, it has been awarded a $ 4.2 billion contract from Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) for the Bapco Modernization Program (BMP).

Lotte Versalis Elastomers has opened a new integrated industrial complex for the production of elastomers in Yeosu, South Korea.

GE Healthcare has completed the acquisition of Puridify, a bioprocessing start-up that is developing a nanofiber-based platform purification technology for biopharmaceutical production. Puridify’s technology, Fibro Select, is complementary to the bead resins and chromatography membranes used today in downstream bioprocessing.

Sustainability is the name of the game in the coveted food markets – but what options do food processors have when it comes to packaging? Can producers and retailers strengthen their brand position by choosing biobased materials? A new study sheds a light on what might be the next big thing in food packaging…

BASF opened a new, world-scale chemical catalysts manufacturing plant in Caojing, Shanghai, China. The new plant is the company's first chemical catalysts manufacturing facility in the Asia Pacific region.