A consortium of companies comprising Air Liquide, Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals, Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam has signed a project development agreement covering initial investments in an advanced waste-to-chemistry facility in Rotterdam.

Mitsubishi Chemical has launched full-scale sales of its new series of PVC elastomer, Sunprene, and announced details about the Eletrolyte joint venture with Ube Industries, which started operations in January this year.

Westlake Chemical will expand capacities for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at its plants located in Burghausen and Gendorf, Germany, as well at its US site located in Geismar.

Some companies feel that they can project manage new processing facilities themselves, bringing in sub-contracted help only when it’s needed. They can, of course, but Thorsten Vammen, Director at GEA Liquid Processing in Skanderborg, Denmark, suggests another way. For, in the end, are the total cost of ownership that matter.

Adani of India invests US $ 3.8 billion in two major projects in the state of Chhattisgarh: The two projects comprise of a Coal to Poly-generation (CTP) Project and a Rice Bran Solvent Extraction Plant & Refinery.

The thin-film drying technology from Gig Karasek can be used for continuous drying of suspensions, municipal sludges, slurries, pastes, wet solids, filter cakes and chemical products.

Pentair Valves & Controls’ new Keystone F89 pneumatic rack and pinion actuators series serves as a complete solution for all quarter turn applications in industries such as chemical, processing, and power. Available globally, the new model delivers cost savings, improved safety and an increased torque rate, the company says.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering has received an order from Kawasaki City to build its Tachibana Waste-to-Energy Plant, a municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plant in Kawasaki's Takatsu District.

Claimed to be Mozambique’s first onshore LNG development, the project is expected to supply initial volumes of approximately 100 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

British engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler announces the award of a contract by Yuhuang Chemical (YCI), a US-based subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company (SYCC), for its first major project in the US, a 1.7 million tons per year world-scale methanol facility on the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana.