Exxon Mobil Chemical Company announced the mechanical completion of two new 650,000 tons per year high performance polyethylene lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas.

Chevron Phillips Chemical has expanded its Tessenderlo plant in Belgium by debottlenecking its production unit for Ethyl Mercaptan (EM) and Tetrahydrothiophene (THT).

Eastman Chemical Company announced it will begin a consultation period regarding a proposal to close its Workington, UK, acetate tow manufacturing facility. The proposed closure of the site is in response to changes in global market demand for acetate tow.

Austrian company Borealis is going to invest EUR 45 million in its European plants in Sweden and in Finland.

Akzo Nobel and chemicals manufacturing company Atul have formally agreed the joint venture partnership announced last year for the production of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in India.

When handling corrosive medias like hot acids, heat transfer can be a difficult task. It is tricky to find a heat exchanger that is corrosion resistant, efficient and cost effective. Tantaline, a producer of tantalum surface alloys for hot acid environments, recently announced the introduction of a tantalum alloyed heat exchange unit to cover this need.

Syrris, a worldwide provider of lab scale chemistry systems, recently announced the launch of the Globe jacketed reactor platform. One of the aims of the system design was to offer the user reaction flexibility

A specialty chemicals manufacturer uses a simple, yet effective rainwater harvesting system at its Mysore factory in India.

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich have developed a method that could make the production of fuel from waste economically viable.

In 2004, CTP Team became part of Bedeschi Group. Founded in 1973, CTP is an engineering and manufacturing company, highly specialised in dust treatment and gas filtration technology. The technologies for gas treatment include filtration, deacification, chemicals treatment, de-NOx, de-SOx, heat recovery and dioxine elimination.