Oxea has started to build a second world-scale propanol unit at its production site at Bay City, Texas, USA.

On April 6, 2011, BASF opened its new Polyurethane (PU) Solutions System House at the just recently completed BASF site in Dubai Industrial City (DIC) with an official ceremony.

The plant is expected to produce 15,500 barrels of gasoline per day and will play a vital role in monetising the country’s natural gas resources. The new plant will also supply the Turkmen home market with synthetic gasoline.

Exxon Mobil and Pertamina have entered into a MOU under which both the companies will examine the potential for large-scale deployment of low-carbon technologies such as carbon capture, utilization and storage, and low-carbon hydrogen in Indonesia.

Renew ELP has plans to develop a new plastics recycling plant based on the ground-breaking advanced recycling process – HydroPRS (Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling System) in Teesside, UK. For this, the company has selected Emerson’s advanced automation technology and software to ensure safe and efficient operation of the unique plastics recycling process.

Solidifying melts and viscous fluids on a steel belt offers a number of advantages including low-dust generation and extremely uniform granules. With its GMP-compliant, steel belt-based Rotoform pastillation system, Ipco offers a solution with particular appeal to manufacturers of foodstuffs, cosmetics and drugs.

Deepak Fertilisers And Petrochemicals plans to establish a global footprint and announced that it is working towards a 300000 tonnes per year Technical Ammonium Nitrate plant in South Australia. Possible land for project has been identified and the company is to begin further feasibility studies.

A Siwertell rail-mounted ship unloader with a rated capacity of 1500 tonnes per hour has recently been ordered global engineering, consulting and construction company Black & Veatch to discharge coal at a greenfield power plant under construction near the city of Davao, Mindanao Island, in the Philippines.

With a massive 21 million dollar (£16.7 million) investment, Tata Chemicals Europe has plans to build a Carbon Capture and Utilisation Plant in the United Kingdom. The facility aims to reduce the firm’s carbon emissions and also ensure a sustainable supply of carbon dioxide.

Solvay plans to increase its annual production capacity of natural soda ash at its Green River plant in Wyoming/USA by 150,000 metric tons as of early next year, to meet growing demand of its U.S. export markets.