Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract for a pre-feasibility study, with the option of proceeding to a detailed feasibility study, for Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and its subsidiaries. The studies are in support of KPC's strategic directions and downstream long term plans for the period up to 2040.

Borealis and United Chemical Company (UCC) have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for the development of a world-scale polyethylene project, integrated with an ethane cracker, in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Mol Group has announced the completion of their new synthetic rubber plant built through a joint venture with JSR Corporation. Feedstock material to the new plant located in Tiszaújváros, Hungary, will be secured from the company’s butadiene extraction unit.

Maag, one of the leading manufacturers of gear pumps, pelletizing and filtration systems, and pulverizers for demanding applications in the plastics, chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries, has announced that it will be exhibiting at the upcoming NPE2018: The Plastics Show. Scheduled to take place on May 7-11, 2018 in Florida, the USA, the show is one of the leading events in the plastics industry bringing together over 65,000 professionals from 128 countries.

Praxair started its new air separation plant at the Liaoning Oxiranchem (Oxiran) facility in Yangzhou Chemical Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, China.

Minimizing cleaning times using an air-diaphragm pump and controller – When Greg and Jaimie Blanchard took ownership of Pro Chem Cleaning Systems, they immediately began modernizing the plant to improve productivity, efficiency and safety. These upgrades included replacing an outdated manual pumping system with an ARO EXP Series air-operated diaphragm pump and closed-loop controller. Among the outcomes, the plant reduced its tank filling time from hours to minutes, it received fully automated pumping solutions and also lowered certain safety risks. Now the company is getting ready to expand production and triple its capacity.

Looking for new analytical indstruments, lab equipment or machniery? Why not buy second hand? Equip Net India, a specialist in used laboratory instruments and production equipment, suggests measures to buyers to make the most of their purchasing deal – In this article, the background to the growing second-user revolution in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries is highlighted.

The international inspectorate Tüv Süd has recently certified the Wacker Group’s mass balance method for tracing renewable raw materials in silicone manufacture. The manufacturer is the first company in the world to produce silicone fluids without the use of fossil resources.

The Finland-based company has signed a multiyear agreement with Chevron. Both the companies had collaborated to develop a Novel Liquid Polymer.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) announced that The Saudi Methacrylates Company (Samac), a joint venture between MCC and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, has successfully completed performance test of its plants for production of methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) in Saudi Arabia and commenced commercial operation of both plants on April 2nd, 2018.