Total’s refining and chemicals platform in Antwerp has started up production of ethylene using ethane feedstock, which is extracted from natural gas.

Syngenta announced that two members of the company's Executive Committee — Trish Malarkey, Head of R&D and Mark Peacock, Head of Global Operations — will leave Syngenta at the end of September 2017.

Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than € 20 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Expancel product line for expandable microspheres.

Uhdenora and Befar Group have signed a contract for the construction of an 80,000 mtpy caustic soda plant at Binzhou City, Province of Shandong, China. The plant will be the world’s first to be based on the NaCl ODC technology owned by Uhdenora.

Ineos Styrolution and Sirap will focus on the use of polystyrene that is recycled through the depolymerisation process. With this, the joint project aims to establish a circular economy wherein post-consumer waste and environmental footprint is reduced.

French plant manufacturer Technip was selected to plan the Construction of a new Chemical Plant for Solvay in China.

The Shaw Group has recently completed services work for the addition of a Shaw proprietary Ultra Selective Cracking (USC) furnace for Indian natural gas company Gail in Pata, Uttar Pradesh.

Evonik announced that it is setting aside € 100 million for the topic of digitalization and is also entering into a strategic partnership with IBM and the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Evonik Industries has dissolved its joint venture with Chinese partner Sanzheng Fine Chemicals. This comprises the cyanuric chloride plants in Yingkou and Chongqing, which supplied the agrochemicals markets in the region. The decommissioned Chongqing site remains with Evonik.

Oxea's new oxo derivatives production in China is well on time: Construction works for the plant have just begun, with completion scheduled for late 2013.