German engineering for the world's largest transportable Ferris wheel: The R80XL, a giant rising 80 meters in height, is completely equipped with automation technology from Siemens....

Chevron Phillips Chemical has expanded its Tessenderlo plant in Belgium by debottlenecking its production unit for Ethyl Mercaptan (EM) and Tetrahydrothiophene (THT).

Covestro is already actively exploiting the benefits of digital transformation. The company now announced that important progress had been made in two areas: A pilot project has provided new findings for the predictive, intelligent maintenance of systems and is now continued at the production site in Caojing, China. Also, the global project for digitalizing and integrating the system landscape in production, "Optimized System Integration" (OSI2020) for short, is entering the next project phase.

Eastman Chemical Company announced it will begin a consultation period regarding a proposal to close its Workington, UK, acetate tow manufacturing facility. The proposed closure of the site is in response to changes in global market demand for acetate tow.

Austrian company Borealis is going to invest EUR 45 million in its European plants in Sweden and in Finland.

Sumitomo Chemical has decided to build additional production lines for its liquid crystal polymer Sumikasuper at its plant in Ehime, Japan. The liquid crystal polymer will be produced at Sumitomo Chemical’s Ehime plant and at the Harima plant of its subsidiary Taoka Chemical in Japan. This expansion will increase the group’s production capacity by about 30 percent. The new production lines are scheduled for completion in summer 2023.

The Hydrogen Manufacturing Unit (HMU) will be built on the Tabangao refinery in Batangas, Philippines. The move follows a long term contract signed between Air Liquide Philippines and Pilipinas Shell for supplying hydrogen to Shell’s Tabangao refinery.

Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation and His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company met in Abu Dhabi to explore the potential opportunities for collaboration between both the countries.

Invista plans to invest more than US $100 in a new Lycra Fibre production facility in Paulínia in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The new production plant is expected to open in late 2012 with construction work beginning immediately.

Shell recently announced that a Technip Samsung Consortium (TSC) will do the detailed design and construction of Shell's floating liquified natural gas facility Prelude FLNG.