Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical has selected Lyondell Basell's Spheripol polypropylene technology for a 200 kt per year plant in Heze City, Shandong Province, China.

Mitsubishi Chemical has launched full-scale sales of its new series of PVC elastomer, Sunprene, and announced details about the Eletrolyte joint venture with Ube Industries, which started operations in January this year.

Emerson has completed its $ 90 million automation project for BP’s Glen Lyon floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel west of Shetland.

Westlake Chemical will expand capacities for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at its plants located in Burghausen and Gendorf, Germany, as well at its US site located in Geismar.

Some companies feel that they can project manage new processing facilities themselves, bringing in sub-contracted help only when it’s needed. They can, of course, but Thorsten Vammen, Director at GEA Liquid Processing in Skanderborg, Denmark, suggests another way. For, in the end, are the total cost of ownership that matter.

Adani of India invests US $ 3.8 billion in two major projects in the state of Chhattisgarh: The two projects comprise of a Coal to Poly-generation (CTP) Project and a Rice Bran Solvent Extraction Plant & Refinery.

Self-Chilled Beverage Cans – Future of the Beverage Market? – Metal cans have not taken giant leaps in terms of improving the package functionality over the past two decades, with the can looking and doing more or less the same. Nevertheless, a breakthrough came in the form of the ‘Self Chilled Beverage Can’ in 2012, launched by Joseph Company, a privately owned beverage company in the United States of America. ‘Chill Can’ as it is called, can rapidly cool the contents by 300oCC in less than three minutes.

Merck announced an additional investment of approx. $ 49 million to build a robust manufacturing and distribution platform in Asia over a span of two years. This investment follows the company’s November 2016 announcement of its $ 98 million Life Science investment in Nantong, China.

Thyssen Krupp Industrial Solutions, the plant engineering and construction specialist of the Thyssen Krupp Group, has won a contract from the Southern Peru Copper Corporation to supply a primary crushing and overland conveying system for the Cuajone Copper Mine in Peru. We know all the Details of the contract.

The thin-film drying technology from Gig Karasek can be used for continuous drying of suspensions, municipal sludges, slurries, pastes, wet solids, filter cakes and chemical products.