Within the $ 6 billion petrochemical investment on the US Gulf, Chevron Phillips Chemicals has selected Audubon Engineering solutions for a main contractor framework agreement.

A joint venture has been established by Braskem and Sojitz to produce and commercialize bio-based mono-ethylene glycol which has the capacity to meet the growing market demand for sustainable and renewable products.

The Chillgard 5000 NH3 Monitoring System from MSA Safety comprises photoacoustic infrared sensors and is compliant with Ansi/International Institute of Ammonia Research and EN378 requirements. It can be used across various industries which require refrigeration or freezers such as food/beverage, cold storage warehouses and petro-chemical plants.

Chemical company Oxea announced plans to build a production plant for plasticisers and oxo derivatives in Nanjing China.

Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than € 4 million (approx. $ 4.72 million) to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Levasil CC-branded product line of patented surface modified colloidal silica.

The global chemical company Oxea has entered into a cooperation with a German partner to produce dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a general purpose non-ortho-phthalate plasticizer, in Europe.

Lanxess has donated one million liters of its disinfectant solution – Rely+On Virkon to healthcare and public institutions in 13 countries amidst the outbreak of the global pandemic, Covid-19. The disinfectant is claimed to inactivate the coronavirus quickly.

The new polyethylene unit (PE3) is expected to produce 270,000 tonnes of modern high-density polyethene granulate per year. The PE3 facility has been awarded the highest investment ever in the history of Czech Republic’s chemical industry.

Doosan Vina has shipped 15 modules weighing 2,508 tonnes to the Ruwais Refinery in Abu Dhabi and three equipment weighing 2,040 tonnes which will be used in the process of filtering seawater in the kingdom of Bahrain.

R. Stahl supports EPCs, OEMs, system integrators as well as end users, with a range of products, system solutions, engineering services and other related services. The company has now obtained the updated UL approval for their explosion protected Ex e (increased safety) control stations 8146 and 8150 series as well as their Consig 8040 range of control and signaling stations for use in an extended ambient temperature range.