Speciality chemicals company Solvay has announced its plans to invest in a new facility to produce electronic grade hydrogen peroxide (eH2O2) in Casa Grande, USA, to supply the growing U.S. semiconductor manufacturing market.

Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Industrial Gases, a subsidiary of Air Liquide, will invest more than 204 million dollars to build two hydrogen production units and related infrastructure in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.

The global chemical process industries are aware of this trend and some of them are already undertaking mega projects to accelerate their energy transition.

Which sectors of the chemical industry in China offer the greatest growth opportunities? Anyone pursuing this question will sooner or later come into contact with an idea that many people in China are downright obsessed with. ‘Overtaking the curve’ is the name of this idea. China Market Insider knows what this means and why China's chemical industry is hoping for the 5G boom.

The US polar storm has shut down 90 % of US polypropylene (PP) capacity, 67 % of ethylene and devastated other important products, sending ripples around global chemical markets prices soaring.

Since the end of the corona lockdowns in China in spring 2020, the propane dehydrogenation (PDH) industry there has been expanding like never before. More than 30 new propane dehydrogenation plants with a capacity of more than 30 million tons per year are currently under construction in China or are planned for the coming years.

The Corona crisis, particularly the lockdowns adopted by many governments, has hit the chemical industry hard in China. However, sales in many of the top companies in China already declined in 2019, even before Corona. But there are exceptions, as the figures from 2019 in our latest top 10 show here.

Chemicals company Eastman announced a planned increase of its Therminol 66 heat transfer fluid manufacturing capacity in Anniston, USA. The plant expansion is expected to be complete in 2024.

Power-to-X is on everyone’s lips: as energy storage, alternatives to battery-electric mobility or basic raw materials for industrial processes, the conversion of green electricity into material form is a cornerstone of all defossilization strategies. But how realistic is the vision of fuel from the socket? A test plant in Lower Bavaria, Germany, shows that the necessary technologies have long been in the starting blocks.

Chemicals company Huntsman announced the start of commercial operation of a new methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) splitter at its Geismar site in Louisiana.