The use of Kynar Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) is gaining traction across industries where chemicals are extensively used, thanks to the special attributes of this material that have proven its viability in various applications.

Processing plants usually operate for decades and therefore it becomes important and essential to modernize its systems. Carrying out the necessary activities during ongoing plant operations becomes difficult when the process control systems become old and thus should be modernised or completely replaced.

Miami based investment firm H.I.G. Capital goes on shopping spree in Germany: the private equity investors recently acquired hydrocarbons specialist Halterman Products from Dow.

A union of giants: Dow and Saudi Aramco recently announced the building of a joint-venture chemicals complex in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, 100 kilometers northwest of Dammam. Aramco officials expect the project to be the first of its kind in the kingdom's fast growing chemical industry.

Novatek, one of the largest independent natural gas producers in Russia, takes over oil & gas company Severneft-Urengoy from fertilizers conglomerate Eurochem for an undisclosed sum.

Total has inaugurated the new units at its Antwerp integrated refining & petrochemicals platform, which have progressively started up in the last few months. This event marks the completion of the upgrade program launched in 2013 of one of the largest and most efficient integrated refining & petrochemicals platforms in Europe.

Jacobs Engineering has been awarded a contract by Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC) to provide front-end engineering design (Feed) services for a proposed greenfield, integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene facility located in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada. CKPC is a joint venture of Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Pembina) of Canada and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait.

Italian based Maire Tecnimont will design and construct a large scale, greenfield fertilizer complex for Midwest Fertilizer in Mount Vernon, Indiana (United States). The EPC contract alone is worth US $ 1.6 billion.

A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Statoil to undertake a feasibility study for the upgrade of Statoil’s Mongstad Refinery in Norway.

Eurochem will use KBR's proprietary Purifier technology under a license through Tecnimont for two new ammonia plants located at Kingisepp near St. Petersburg and Nevinnomyssk in southern Russia.