Petroplus confirmed the shutdown of its Coryton Refinery in Essex, England. According to the Swiss holding company, commercial operations will resume in a few days.

European engineering companies profit from new oil and gas projects in Asia: Now French Technip will provide engineering expertise for an Usbekian GTL project.

Organik Kimya is expanding the production capacity of redispersible powder polymers. The investment includes an addition of a second spray dryer to the Tuzla based Orgachem plant, which will be operational by 2020 and will double the current production capacity.

Bayer Material Science is increasing its production capacities in the Asia/Pacific region to meet the continued growth in demand there for raw materials for coatings and adhesives. Ground was broken at the site in Shanghai, China, on Monday for a new plant for the production of the precursor hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI). With an annual capacity of 50,000 metric tons, it will be the one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world

Solvay invests € 6 million in the expansion of its sodium bicarbonate capacity at the Rheinberg production site. Its start-up is planned by the end of 2018.

Clariant announced the completion of the expansion measures at its industrial facility in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, which have resulted in an increase of production capacity by around 15 %.

BASF further expands its long-standing partnership Petronas. The companies want to build World-scale plant for highly reactive polyisobutene at Kuantan/Malaysia.

Sadara has signed an agreement to supply Sadig-Ilco, a new Saudi-German joint venture that produces various specialty chemicals based on Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Propylene Oxide (PO).

Borealis announces a € 160 million invest in its production plant in Stenungsund, Sweden. Core of the project is the planned revamp of four cracker furnaces.

In developing countries, demand for liquid sugars is growing. For a customer in Brazil, a pH measurement solution that would tolerate the harsh process conditions was essential. Mettler Toledo provided them a robust, dependable system that requires very little maintenance.