Emerson Process Management and Lubrizol have completed on-schedule, on-budget factory acceptance of Emerson’s integrated automation solution for Lubrizol’s greenfield additives manufacturing plant in Zhuhai, China. Emerson is the Main Automation Contractor for the plant, which will offer select additive component manufacturing as well as additive package blending.

Synthomer announces that it has sold its Leuna site in Germany to Alberdingk Boley for an undisclosed price.

Under long-term agreements, Linde’s new plant is expected to supply carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a leading chemical company along with other refining and chemical customers in Southern Louisiana, USA.

Air Liquide has announced that it has closed its divestment of its entities in Czech Republic and Slovakia to Messer. The move is in line with the company’s strategy of focusing its expansion in key regions in order to enhance performance.

Harry Van den Akker, Professor of Transport Phenomena at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, has been named as the recipient of the 2015 BHR Group Lifetime Recognition Award in Mixing.

Italian based Maire Tecnimont will design and construct a large scale, greenfield fertilizer complex for Midwest Fertilizer in Mount Vernon, Indiana (United States). The EPC contract alone is worth US $ 1.6 billion.

According to a study published by Euro Chlor, European chlorine production reached 823,530 tonnes in November 2017.

Axens’ Paramax Technology Suite has been finalised by China’s Cnooc Huizhou Petrochemical Company for expanding its petrochemical complex. On completion of the project, the new complex is expected to produce 1,500,000 tonnes per year of para-xylene in a single train.

The industrial gas specialists of Air Liquide have big plans in China: Not only does the company plan the country's largest air separation unit, it also announces further investments.

BASF plans to strengthen its position as the world’s leading chemical company. In its further developed strategy “We create chemistry,” the company outlines how it wants to achieve this.