B.J. Hebert has been selected as Chevron Phillips Chemical Company’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer w.e.f November 1. He will be responsible for the firm’s manufacturing operations and commercial functions.

Claimed to be India’s largest chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) plant, the 100,000 metric-tonne unit will be constructed at Grasim’s site in Vilayat, Gujarat. With this plant, Lubrizol and Grasim will manufacture and supply CPVC resin in the country.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has reported that its Chemical Activity Barometer rose 1.6 % in September on a three-month moving average basis following a 2.7 % gain in August.

Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem) has become the first company in the US to produce circular polyethylene from recycled mixed-waste plastics on a commercial scale. Utilising advanced recycling technology, the firm has plans to develop its new circular polyethylene range and market it upon certification.

Under a Letter of Intent recently signed between BP and Ørsted, both the companies will work together for the ‘Lingen Green Hydrogen’ project in which they will jointly develop a 50 MW electrolyser. The mega electrolyser project is expected to produce one tonne an hour of green ‎hydrogen.

Under the terms of the contract, Lummus Technology will be responsible for designing as well as supplying four proprietary Short Residence Time VI and VII type cracking furnaces to the gas chemical complex in Uzbekistan.

Lanxess and Saudi Aramco plan to establish a joint venture for synthetic rubber. The speciality chemicals company and Saudi Aramco subsidiary, Aramco Overseas Company, will each hold a 50 % interest in the joint venture, with annual sales of approximately three billion Euro in 2014.

The German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) has compared the ambitious project to a 'moon landing mission' in which the Apollo programme is completely missing. Thus, indicating that the European Parliament, Commission and Council must set the targets based on ground realities.

Researchers at the University of Houston have created a new thermoelectric material, intended to generate electric power from waste heat with higher output power than currently available materials.

With the acquisition of Bunge Loders Croklaan's Rotterdam plant, Neste has plans to increase its raw material pre-treatment capacity for the production of renewable products. The move is in line with the company’s global growth strategy for renewables.