Mitsui Chemicals shuts down its phenol production plant at Chiba Phenol. The closure follows a period of sales slumps in domestic phenol and deterioration in export profitability due to oversupply from new facilities in Asia, Mitsui officials stated.

Evonik and Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions have granted a license for HPPO Technology to Zibo Qixiang Tengda Chemical to produce propylene oxide. Corresponding agreements were signed by the parties in Guangzhou in China.

KBR announced that it was beginning to work on the EPC Phase of Methanex's Geismar 3 Methanol Project in Louisiana. This follows a final Investment decision from Methanex.

There are different technical and administrative requirements on the one side for active storage of chemicals and on the other side for passive storage of chemicals. When do we refer to active storage and when to passive storage? Discover, what is important for safe hazardous substance storage in this article.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of November 2021’ from all over the world. Right from building one of the world’s lowest carbon-emitting crackers to developing a new novel methane-reducing feed additive manufacturing plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

PlastIndia Foundation formally announced PlastIndia 2015 (PI 2015) Exhibition from 5-10 February 2015 to be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi with the rousing tagline of ‘Expanding Horizons’. The ninth edition of the exhibition was unveiled at an inaugural function attended by stalwarts of the industry.

Cepsa has completed a revamping project to expand production at its Deten Química plant in Brazil. The revamping process allows it to increase the plant’s production capacity up to 260,000 tons.

Plug Power has been chosen by Fertiglobe’s green hydrogen consortium to deliver a world-scale 100 MW electrolyzer in Egypt. Claimed to become one of the largest ‘independently owned’ facility in the world, the electrolyzer will produce up to 90,000 tons of green hydrogen as feedstock for green ammonia production at EBIC in Egypt.

Turning a fascination for vacuum into real applications and products  — the history of industrial vacuum engineering is closely connected to the name Pfeiffer Vacuum. Ever since 1890, everything at Asslar/Germany has revolved around the valuable “nothingness” of vacuum. “The perfect vacuum solution for every challenge” is the bold claim of the company from Hesse in Germany. Chief Executive Officer Dr. Eric Taberlet spoke to us about challenges and future developments at the company.

Gea has invested in a new multimillion-Euro solid dosage facility. In May this year, the company will officially open its recently expanded Pharma Solids Center (GPSC) in Wommelgem, Belgium.