Favourable government initiatives, a strong ‘green’ approach and robust R&D are propelling the Indian chemical industry to new heights.

Clariant’s new supply base in Indonesia is expected to offer the firm’s oil service customers with improved, more sustainable supply chains for its Pour Point Depressants (PPD) and Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) products.

Successful turnaround projects underline the importance of the maintenance sector for Bilfinger. The industrial service provider has become a specialist for the difficult task, with contracts worth a double digit million Euros in the books for winter 2014.

Lyondell Basell’s technology will be used for three of Petro China’s facilities in China and aims to add 1100 KTA of high density polyethylene capacity to the region.

Thanks to their large specific surfaces, microprocessing plants are usually significantly more efficient than conventional technology in terms of the transport of materials and heat. In concrete terms this means: greater selectivity, larger yields and increased safety for fast exothermic reactions. Enough of the theory. How this translates into practice was shown at conference entitled “Industrial use of microprocessing technology” staged by Dechema.

Honeywell’s UOP Technology to helps Chinese petrochemicals Manufacturer to meet the growing demand from construction and automotive industries. Leading petrochemical process technology will support Cepsa Chemical’s production of building block materials for plastics used for fast-growing industries.

Atul, a major basic chemicals and derivatives manufacturer India, has selected Thyssen Krupp Industrial Solutions (India) to render Engineering, Lumpsum Supply of Cell Elements and Site Supervision Services for its caustic soda conversion project at Valsad, Gujarat.

The engineering, construction and services company KBR has signed an agreement with Chiyoda, a leading engineering and construction firm in Japan, to license its CT-Acetica technology.

Chempoint becomes "preferred distributor" for DuPont's Capstone product family of fluorinated surfactants in the US and Canada, managing order placement and fulfillment, as well as technical assistance and support for these products.

Saudi Polymers (SPCo), a joint venture of Saudi Arabia's National Petrochemical Company and Chevron Phillips Chemical, starts up production in commercial scales at its petrochemicals facility in Al-Jubail. At one of the largest petrochemicals complexes, the company produces ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, styrene and hexene.