Bayer MaterialScience plans to construct a new world-scale production facility for the coating raw material isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) at its integrated site in Shanghai, China.

Wacker Chemie is expanding its silicone production at its Jandira site near São Paulo, Brazil.

BASF's rise to becoming a global battery giant takes the next step: The world's biggest chemical company opens its first manufacturing facility dedicated to commercial-scale production of advanced cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries in Elyria/Ohio, USA...

In March 2017 the privately run industrial gases provider, Messer, opened a 150,000 tons CO2 recovery plant in Nanjing, China, making the company the biggest provider of CO2 in China.

German industrial supplier RMA enters the Middle–Eastern Growth Markets: The firm has just launched its new subsidiary company, RMA Middle East, at the Bahrain International Investment Park. With this step, the company hopes to participate from growth in the local petro- and petrochemical industry...

As part of digitization strategies, the companies which produce the most data will not be the ones who will prevail. The winners will be those who use their data to generate real additional benefits. The real added value will be the way of collecting, analyzing, integrating, and presenting this data. Only organized, real-time data from operational and business levels can help make informed decisions.

Apart from a green refinery project awarded by Italian Eni, Amec Foster Wheeler announced a global downstream framework agreement with Shell and an Owner's Engineering contract by GNL Quintero in Chile.

In the chemical industry, in power plants or on oilfields corrosion, deposits and the growth of harmful microorganisms can all result in system failure. In addition to preventive measures to avoid corrosion problems also scaling must be prevented. Only the precise interaction of metering pumps, controllers and sensors can guarantee fault-free operation with maximum safety.

It stands as the benchmark: Those who operate with thermowell strength calculations in accordance with the globally recognised standard ASME PTC 19.3, will protect themselves against all eventualities. With the additional mark of “TW-2016”, the standard specifications are now available in a revised version. The revision provides some clearer and more-detailed definitions.

The scale of US shale gas reserves is conjuring up scenarios that seemed unimaginable just a short time ago. Ammonia plants and crackers are now under construction in a country where the chemical industry appeared to be in terminal decline. Gold fever is currently gripping the plant engineering industry, and everyone wants to be first in line...