Clariant’s new office is located in Jubail, which is claimed to be the world’s largest industrial city and an important site for the petrochemicals market in Saudi Arabia. With this move, the company aims to strengthen its presence and partnerships in the region.

Tosoh has undertaken the move with an aim to meet the growing demand of chloroprene rubber in the region. The company also has plans to renew its facilities and further expand its business.

Messer and Hoa Phat Steel, the largest steel producer in Vietnam, signed a contract in Hanoi for the construction of two plants for the production of industrial gases. The contract is to run for a period of 25 years.

Genscript Probio has inaugurated its mega facility which is claimed to be China’s largest commercial GMP plasmid manufacturing plant. The plant will enable the firm to offer customers across the globe a one-stop service for plasmids. The move is expected to speed up the innovation and development of high-quality cell and gene therapy mRNA drugs.

CB&I has been awarded a contract by Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical (ZPC) for the license and engineering design of a single-train 220 kta diphenyl carbonate (DPC) unit for a refining and petrochemical complex in China.

Linde has started up its new air separation plants in order to supply 720 tonnes of high purity nitrogen per day to Shanghai Ever Display Optronics (EDO) for its Amoled project. In accordance with the contract, the firm will also supply other industrial gases such as oxygen, helium, argon and hydrogen to EDO.

KBR has acquired the specialised technologies with an aim to expand octane and clean fuel solutions to its customers. The company has also acquired the patent technology with intellectual property rights to offer the Max-Isom technology across the globe.

Coperion has designed a compounding line as a complete turnkey solution for Lanxess. The line has helped the company to produce high-performance polyamide compounds at throughputs never achieved before. Built around the ZSK 92 Mc18 twin screw extruder and equipped with special features such as the ASC strand conveying system, the turnkey system ensured a high degree of automation which helped to deliver high output and maintain good product quality.

Tatneft and KazMunayGas have entered into a joint venture to set up a new production site in the Atyrau region of Kazakhstan. The new facility, estimated to cost about 1 billion dollars, will produce up to 180 thousand tons of butadiene and butadiene rubbers annually.

Mc Dermott and Chevron JV, Chevron Lummus Global has been awarded a sizeable license and engineering contract for a 270 TMTPA lubricants base oil plant located at the Haldia Refinery in West Bengal, India.