A bearing failure and resulting gasket leak caused LSB Industries to shut down its chemical factory at Cherokee, Alabama. Repairs could take a whole month, LSB speakers stated.

Russia's biggest private oil group Lukoil commissions Glatt Ingenieurtechnik again with the construction of a plant for the production of sodium cyanide (NaCN), a chemical that is mainly used in gold mining.

Oxea has started to build a second world-scale propanol unit at its production site at Bay City, Texas, USA.

On April 6, 2011, BASF opened its new Polyurethane (PU) Solutions System House at the just recently completed BASF site in Dubai Industrial City (DIC) with an official ceremony.

Solvay plans to increase its annual production capacity of natural soda ash at its Green River plant in Wyoming/USA by 150,000 metric tons as of early next year, to meet growing demand of its U.S. export markets.

Solvay announced that it is further focussing its activities by selling its refrigerant business and pharma propellants in Frankfurt, Germany, to the Japanese Daikin.

A new research by the Duke and Kent State universities provides surprising results: Although hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") consumes less water than conventional gas wells, the waste water can still overstress local disposal and cleaning systems...

Toyo Engineering and its consortium partner Daewoo Nigeria have jointly received letter of award to build world’s largest single train urea plant from Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals. The proposed facility will be built at Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals existing petrochemicals complex at Port Harcourt, River state, Nigeria

Safety first: Chemical engineers working in safety can benefit from a new seminar by IChemE on the implementation of the Seveso lll European directive that comes into force in 2015.

Exxon Mobil starts up a new 2.6 million tons per year steamcracker, the centerpiece of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project at its refinery in Singapore. With this large scale project, the company targets the production of specialty grade metallocene polymers in Asia...