Dow Industrial Solutions plans to expand its propionic acid facility in Texas City, USA. The follows plant expansion follows debottlenecking projects completed at the Texas City facility in 2015 and 2017.

Both the companies will jointly evaluate business opportunities for cooperation in exploration, production, gas and chemicals both inside and outside Brazil.

Hanwha Total Petrochemical, a 50/50 joint venture between Hanwha and Total, will invest more than $ 300 million to expand its integrated refining & petrochemicals platform located in Daesan, South Korea.

Air Products has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of Shanxi Jincheng Anthracite Coal Mining Group, a Chinese coal mining conglomerate, for the supply of industrial gases to Phase One of Shanxi Jinmei Huayu Coal Chemical (Jinmei Huayu’s) coal-to-clean-fuels project in Jincheng City, Shanxi Province.

BASF has inaugurated its world-scale production complex for acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. The complex has a capacity of 160,000 tons of acrylic acid per year. The investment of more than € 500 million is the largest in BASF’s more than century-long history in South America.

IMA is pushing on continuous manufacturing in the pharmaceutical production within the new Innovation Hub.

Technip, in a consortium with Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation (PTSC), has been awarded a engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract by Petro Vietnam Fertilizer and Chemicals Corporation (PVFC).

A new material changes its conductivity depending on the concentration of CO2 in the environment. The researchers who developed it have utilized the material to produce a miniature, simply constructed sensor.

Jacobs Engineering has been awarded a contract to complete a front end engineering design (Feed) study for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant located at the existing Borealis production site in Kallo, Belgium.

Anellotech announced the completion of the commissioning of its T-Cat-8 pilot plant, and the commencement of the critical development and testing program. The unit is designed to demonstrate the Bio-T-Cat (thermal catalytic biomass conversion) process in a fluid bed reactor with internal process recycle streams and continuous catalyst regeneration.