Invista Nylon Chemicals has plans to double its current nylon 6,6 polymer production at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China in order to meet the rising domestic demand. With this move, the plant’s capacity will reach 400,000 tons/year.

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has collaborated with Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals to establish the Jiangsu Sailboat green methanol plant in China. Based on CRI’s ETL technology, the new unit is expected to recycle 150,000 metric tons of CO2 and 20,000 metric tons of H2 per year in order to produce 100,000 tons of methanol annually.

Market research firm, Research and Markets has recently released an in-depth report on the impact of Covid-19 on the Chinese chemical industry. In the report, various regional players, laws and policies, consumer behaviour and macro-economic factors have also been analysed.

In line with the Scottish Government’s ambition of achieving net zero emissions by 2045 in the country, Ineos Grangemouth will further invest 1.37-billion-dollars in addition to the over 686 million dollars already invested at its Grangemouth site in Scotland to deliver emissions savings of more than 60 % across the site by 2030 and thus, achieve net zero emissions by 2045.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2021’ from all over the world. Right from building the world’s largest epichlorohydrin unit to investing 360 million dollars for establishing an API manufacturing unit, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Prime Polymer has awarded Toyo Engineering with an EPC contract to build a new polypropylene plant at its Ichihara-shi, Chiba site in Japan. On completion, the facility is expected to produce 200,000 tons per year.

Siemens Energy and Toray will jointly promote the development of the largest multi megawatt class PEM electrolysis in Japan under the Green Innovation Funding Program arranged by the Japanese Government. Toray’s new membrane technology will be used in the process. The companies aim to advance the technologies used in the production of green hydrogen by making use of renewable energy sources.

Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Process has been selected by Repsol for its new 300,000 TPY polyethylene (PE) plant at the company’s Industrial Complex in Sines, Portugal. Univation’s XCAT Metallocene Technology will also be used by the company to produce specialty metallocene PE grades for the European polyethylene film market.

With an aim to expand its alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent (ASA) production capacity for the paper and packaging board industry, Kemira has invested in a new production line in China. This is the third production line at the company’s Nanjing site in the Jiangsu province.

The Ethylene Oxide and Propylene Oxide (EO/PO) pipelines will distribute feedstock to various business tenants in PlasChem Park, an industrial park in Jubail, Saudi Arabia to produce diversified specialty chemical products.