The new production facility for coating resins is located in the Supa Japanese Industrial Zone in Maharashtra, India. With this project, the firm has tripled its production capacity. The coating resins will be used for automotive and infrastructure applications.

The International Chemical Investors Group has decided to takeover Evonik’s superabsorbents business. The move is in line with Evonik’s goal of divesting its Performance Materials Division.

Solenis has plans to invest 193 million dollars in order to expand its business operations in Virginia, USA. The firm intends to develop a new production unit, packaging facility and tank farm, and also accommodate production of polyvinylamine polymer products.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of March 2024’ from all over the world. Right from the world’s largest ‘ammonia to hydrogen’ modular cracker demo in operation to Akzonobel investing 30 million plus dollars at its powder coatings sites, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The acquisition includes the leasing of a processing facility in Jurupa Valley, California, USA which currently has a production capacity of approximately 50 million pounds per year for recycled materials.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Chevron Lummus Global commissioning the world’s largest all-hydroprocessing white oil unit to Lanzajet inaugurating the world’s first ethanol to SAF production facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Kemira has successfully completed the divestment of its Oil & Gas related portfolio to Sterling Specialty Chemicals, a US subsidiary of Artek Group. The move is in line with the company’s strategy of focusing on its core businesses and accelerating its profitable growth strategy.

It dyes jeans blue, is found in PUR foam and rocket fuel and is extracted from naphtha on a scale of millions of tons: Aniline. The versatile basic chemical is set to turn green thanks to bioprocess engineering - a project in Leverkusen shows how straw can be turned into plastic

With an aim to increase its global elastomers production capacity, Arkema has started-up a new production unit in France. With the new unit, the firm is expected to increase its production capacity by 40 %.

Kemira and IFF will work together towards the commercialization of a biotechnology process – Designed Enzymatic Biomaterial platform – that enables production of new renewable polymers with enzymatic polymerization.