Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) has successfully completed the acquisition of Perstorp. With this deal, PCG aims to strengthen its specialty chemicals business and also intends to accelerate the growth of Perstorp by focusing on its growth projects.

Qatar Energy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company have recently undertaken a Final Investment Decision to develop a world-scale integrated polymers facility – the Golden Triangle Polymers Plant in the USA. The 8.5-billion-dollar project will include an ethylene cracker unit and two high-density polyethylene units.

Critical components for plants and refineries, relief valves help operators avoid a variety of safety concerns related to system overpressurization – but only if they’re placed in the right locations. That includes in high-pressure systems, when toxic fluids or chemicals are used, and when sensitive equipment is involved. Placed strategically, relief valves can help facilities vent excess system pressure buildups due to procedural error, component wear, contamination, or loss of power.

On a recent visit to evaluate several level transmitters on chemical storage applications at a new combined cycle power plant, Magnetrol-Ametek had the opportunity to work with the EPC firm, plant personnel and the chemical supplier. This provided an interesting look at the level instrumentation package for the chemical storage side of things from an engineering perspective, as well as from a daily operations point of view.

Sabic has collaborated with confectionery major Mars and leading provider of environmental and chemical compliance services Landbell for flexible food packaging. Sabic’s certified circular polypropylene will be used to pack Mars’ Kind snack bar.

Under a MOU signed between OMV and Wood, both the parties will work together for the commercial licensing of OMV’s proprietary chemical recycling technology – Reoil technology which has the capability to convert end-of-life plastic waste into pyrolysis oil in order to produce high-quality, sustainable plastics.

Solid-state batteries are termed as the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles due to their many plus points over traditional lithium-ion batteries including higher energy density, quick charge and safer operations. The first player in the market to mass-produce these batteries will enjoy a significant advantage over its competitors, thus, chemical companies are also looking to develop unique solutions for these batteries.

Ineos Enterprises has plans to acquire Ashta Chemicals from Bigshire Mexico. The deal will also include a 100 ktpa potassium hydroxide/65 ktpa Chlorine plant which is located close to the Ineos pigments facility in Ashtabula, Ohio, USA.

With this deal, Ineos Phenol will add more than 1 million tonnes of production capacity annually to its existing chemical business. This includes cumene (410 ktpa), phenol (310 ktpa), acetone (185 ktpa), alpha-methylstyrene (20 ktpa) and bisphenol A (150 ktpa).

The new world-scale Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) production plant will be developed at OQ Chemicals’ production site at Bay City, Texas, USA. Röhm will make use of its latest proprietary production technology Lima for the project which is expected to produce 250,000 metric tons of MMA every year.