BASF has launched a proprietary new Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) additive designed for butylene selectivity in refineries. The product called Evolve improves butylene yields while preserving unit conversion and valuable fuels yields when compared to existing technologies, the company claims.

​Chevron Phillips Chemical has successfully introduced feedstock and commenced operations of a new ethane cracker at its Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, USA.

Suez, through its subsidiary Seramm, started the construction of a biomethane production and injection plant, produced from wastewater treatment process.

Specialist chemicals company Akzo Nobel has been granted an administrative approval for the use of its Ferrazone iron product for food and beverages by the European Union.

How intelligent modular vacuum pump systems minimize downtime and save costs – Innovations in vacuum technology deliver an important contribution to productivity in heat treatment, furnace construction as well as secondary metallurgy. Modern vacuum systems fulfill a number of requirements in order to save energy during the production of high quality steel and to reliably guarantee the required vacuum level.

Learn how a special type of pumping technology, positive displacement (PD) solid-body plastic air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps, possesses the design and construction features that are necessary to guarantee full containment of dangerous chemicals, while also offering working characteristics that enable the highest level of operational efficiency to be achieved.

Xianglu Petrochemical aims for a leading position among China's PTA producers: The company plans a new two million tons/year production facility for this important basic feedstock for the polymer industry in Zhangzhou, South–Eastern China.

The QCP plant is expected to convert consumer waste into 25,000 tonnes of polypropylene and high-density polyethylene. The objective of this company is to churn out an output of 100,000 tonnes by 2020.

Methanol could be the answer of the one big question of the petrochemistry: How to become more independent from crude oil? Again China is being a trailblazer. A lot of Chinese plants convert methanol to petrochemicals. Scientists at ETH Zurich have now deciphered the complex chemistry behind the start of this process.

Petrofac has been awarded a lump-sum Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract by Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) valued at aprrox. $ 135 million.