Honeywell’s UOP Technology to helps Chinese petrochemicals Manufacturer to meet the growing demand from construction and automotive industries. Leading petrochemical process technology will support Cepsa Chemical’s production of building block materials for plastics used for fast-growing industries.

Saudi Polymers (SPCo), a joint venture of Saudi Arabia's National Petrochemical Company and Chevron Phillips Chemical, starts up production in commercial scales at its petrochemicals facility in Al-Jubail. At one of the largest petrochemicals complexes, the company produces ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, styrene and hexene.

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer is to build a PET plant for Sasa Polyester Sanayi in Adana, Turkey. The contract was signed in July 2016 and came into effect in December. With a planned capacity of 1,050 metric tons per day (380,000 tons per year), it will be one of the largest PET plants for textile applications worldwide.

Axens confirmed the signature of an Alpha Butol technology licensing agreement with Socar for the production of high purity 1-Butene through ethylene dimerization.

The move is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 50,000 tonnes per year at Nouryon’s salt production site at Hengelo, in the Netherlands. The company has also more than doubled capacity for emulsion-based organic peroxides at its site in Los Reyes, Mexico to meet increased customer demand in the North American PVC market.

Explosion protection techniques have been undergoing several refinements as a result of the implementation of legislative requirements and innovative product development. The extended use of explosion protection standards and demands from industry resulted in additional products with improved performance.

The company’s Renewable Products business will be segmented into three business units and one operational platform. Each of these units will have their own Executive Vice President and will be part of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Celanese expands its production plant in Florence, Kentucky. The American specialty materials company has just celebrated the groundbreaking for new compounding process lines at the site.

Imagine you are a producer of lubricants, and you want to go biobased … The market is there, for sure, because many applications — from the chain saw in the forest to the wind power generator in the Wadden Sea — require biodegradable lubricants — a feature that can easily be achieved with biobased source materials.

It is essential to select the right equipment in order to achieve reliable results when measuring humidity. The same is true of calibration processes which are carried out at regular intervals and should be based on traceable standards. This will serve to guarantee reliable results in the long term.