On July 5, a major fire broke at the Ming Dih Chemical factory which produces plastic foam and plastic pellets in Thailand. The fire has been extinguished however; the cause of the fire is still unknown.

Röhm has recently launched a new Technology Center in Shanghai, China and plans to establish another Technical Center in Connecticut, USA in order to become a technology leader in methacrylates. The Shanghai Technology Center will offer modern technical application and development labs for innovative applications.

Under a five-year license agreement with Beiyuan, Nouryon will license its Continuous Initiator Dosing (CiD) technology to Beiyuan, and supply its Trigonox 187 proprietary CiD initiator to enhance the Chinese company’s polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production in the country.

BASF and Mitsui Chemicals have launched a collaborative study to promote a circular economy for plastics in Japan. Mitsui Chemicals has plans to become carbon-neutral by 2050 and thus, aims at developing recycling technologies.

Chandra Asri has obtained an investment of 1.7 billion dollars to develop its second world scale integrated petrochemical complex in Indonesia. The project will include a cracker unit, polymerized olefins and related facilities and utilities.

With an aim to meet the growing demand of emission control catalysts, Clariant Catalysts has increased production volume at its Heufeld plant in Germany by 100 %. The facility produces Envicat emission control catalysts, which are capable of eliminating up to 99% of harmful substances from industrial off-gases.

Located at Shell’s Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, near Cologne in Germany, the mega project is part of the Refhyne European consortium which will utilize the PEM technology to produce green hydrogen.

With an aim to meet the growing demand of water treatment solutions in China and the Asia-Pacific region, Kemira has decided to expand its production capacity of water treatment chemicals in Yanzhou, China.

The ‘Best Plant Engineering’ projects from all around the globe have been showcased here. Right from developing the first full-scale zero carbon-emissions steel plant in the world to building the world’s largest polyethylene integration project, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) in its Mid-Year 2021 Chemical Industry Situation and Outlook has stated that vital U.S. chemical industry metrics will be higher this year due to the recovery of key end-use markets and export customers from Covid-19.