Praxair, an industrial gases company, builds a new 300tons per day air separation plant near Mumbai, India. With this new plant the company aims to profit from the growing demand for industrial gases in the Indian steel and chemical industry.

The LP Oxo Selector 10 Technology has been selected by Guangxi Huayi New Material Company to produce butanol at a new manufacturing plant located at the firm’s integrated petrochemical complex in China. The new facility is expected to have a butanol capacity of 300,000 metric tonnes every year.

German Coperion aims to get a foothold in Asia: The company has equipped a special assembly facility for its modular compounding systems at its production site in Shanghai/China. The new 2,000 m² facility will help to cope with the increasing demand for modular compounding systems in the rapidly developing markets of the Far East.

Fluor will provide project management contractor services for a oil-gas processing and petrochemical complex. The contract was awarded by Socar, the state oil company of the Azerbaijan Republic.

Perstorp doubles the production capacity of its caprolactone production plant at Worrington, England. The company seeks to cater the emerging markets with speciality chemicals.

Lyondell Basell plans to boost the capacity for Tri-Ethylene Glycol (TEG) at its plant in Pasadena, Texas, by 50 million tons. This project would nearly double the company's TEG–output in Pasadena, making it one of the largest of its kind.

Solvay is expanding its global production capacity in sulfone polymers in India and the United States to address demand growth from mainly the medical and water treatment industries for this high-performance thermoplastic material.

French based Technip will work on a new grassroots fertilizer project in Gabon, Western Africa. The company will provide design and cost estimates for the project with options for a lump sum turnkey contract.

Borealis will move to the Feed-phase for a new, world-scale propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant, after concluding a pre-Feed feasibility study in June 2017. The facility is planned to be located at the existing Borealis production site in Kallo, Belgium.

Reliance Industries announced the planned shutdown of hydrocracking and vacuum gas oil treating units at one of its Indian refineries for maintenance purposes.