Sumitomo Chemical has begun construction of a plant at Sumika Electronic Materials, a recently-incorporated company in Changzhou City, China, to produce high-purity chemicals for semiconductors. The new facility, the company's second high-purity chemicals facility in China after its first plant in Xi’an, is scheduled to start commercial production in March 2019.

To combat the Coronavirus pandemic, Total Corbion has donated 5 tonnes of Luminy PLA resins to Smart Materials 3D in order to manufacture 125,000 face masks. The innovative 3D printed masks will be distributed across all healthcare facilities in Spain.

ABB offers a suite of remote-enabled solutions for customers in critical industries in order to operate facilities and keep production running in the background of Coronavirus. With these digital solutions, field operators and service engineers can now stay at home and get access to control rooms and key performance indicators of their plants.

Sadara signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Gulf Interchem, a Bahrain-based technology company, for a by-products upgrade project based in Plas Chem Park, a collaborative industrial park between Sadara and the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY) in Jubail Industrial City II.

Total has inaugurated the new units at its Antwerp integrated refining & petrochemicals platform, which have progressively started up in the last few months. This event marks the completion of the upgrade program launched in 2013 of one of the largest and most efficient integrated refining & petrochemicals platforms in Europe.

Sadara, a joint-venture company of Saudi Aramco and Dow, has signed a long-term supply agreement with Energy Chemical Sources (ECSC), a newly formed joint venture between Halliburton and TAQA. Sadara will supply ECSC with chemical products for the next 20 years.

Mitsubishi Chemical and Asahi Kasei join forces for cracker operations in Japan: Both firms agreed on forming a new joint venture for the operation of a unified naphtha cracker in Mizushima - the old sites of the individual firms will be idled...

The maiden commercial use of Clariant’s new catalyst – Reformax 330 LDP Plus has been carried out at OCI Nitrogen’s ammonia production facility in the Netherlands. The incorporation of the catalyst has boosted the plant’s energy and production efficiency.

Bayer bags first order for new ODC chlorine production technology from China. Now the German chemicals company also hopes for the coveted German Industry Innovation Prize.

Bilfinger's asset management and engineering subsidiary Bilfinger Industrial Services will remain the maintenance partner for Borealis' Stenungsund site. Both comapynies agreed on renewing their partnership contract, under wich BIS provides maintenace and full-service partnership for further three and a half years...