Airgas USA, an Air Liquide company, announced plans to build a new liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) production facility in Stockton, California, and to expand an air separation unit (ASU) in Etiwanda, California.

The company is looking at a potential U.S. Gulf Coast project which is expected to expand its annual polypropylene manufacturing capacity by up to 450,000 tonnes.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals, DSM, Google and Philips have started receiving power from the Bouwdokken wind farm in the Netherlands. The companies established an energy purchasing consortium that enabled construction of two Dutch wind farm projects.

Wacker is expanding its existing silicone production at its Amtala site near Kolkata with a new hydrosilylation plant for manufacturing functional silicone fluids. The plant has an annual capacity of over 6,000 metric tons.

With the rising demand of MOS-Hige magnesium oxysulfate whisker in Asia, the new plant is expected to have an annual production capacity of 1,500 tonnes.

The industrial and technology group Thyssen Krupp is strengthening its plant technology capabilities in France by merging the formerly separate entities Polysius and KH Mineral to become ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (France). Read about the strategic objectives ...

And the winners are: Borealis has announced the winners of its 2011 Borealis Student Innovation Awards. On January 19, 2012 Alfred Stern, Borealis Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology, presented Rana Qudaih and Dr. Said Mehdiabadi with their awards, certificates and monetary prizes at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria.

Turning Danube water into pure process water: The reverse osmosis facility at the Slovnaft oil refinery in Slovakia utilises 630 Lewabrane RO B400 HR membrane elements for water treatment. Read how this plant performs.

Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company has accepted a new methanol-to-olefins (MTO) unit provided by Honeywell UOP — the plant is operating and has met all guarantees. With a production capacity of 833,000 metric tons per year, the unit is the largest single-train MTO unit in the world.

Toyo Engineering has been awarded a contract for a project to construct a large-scale fertilizer complex in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh state, India.