Saudi Aramco aims to enhance its performance and competitiveness by reorganising its downstream business. The move is in line with the company’s vision of becoming the world’s preeminent integrated energy and chemicals company.

The global consortium including Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, NH Investment & Securities and Snam have closed the deal with Adnoc.

Post the usage of Clariant’s Catofin catalyst in Dongguan Grand Resource’s 600 KTA propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in 2019, the company has once again selected the catalyst for its second PDH unit in China.

​Chevron Phillips Chemical has successfully introduced feedstock and commenced operations of a new ethane cracker at its Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, USA.

Suez, through its subsidiary Seramm, started the construction of a biomethane production and injection plant, produced from wastewater treatment process.

Liveris will be leaving the organization w.e.f July 1, 2018 and Jeff Fettig will become the next Executive Chairman of the company.

Specialist chemicals company Akzo Nobel has been granted an administrative approval for the use of its Ferrazone iron product for food and beverages by the European Union.

How intelligent modular vacuum pump systems minimize downtime and save costs – Innovations in vacuum technology deliver an important contribution to productivity in heat treatment, furnace construction as well as secondary metallurgy. Modern vacuum systems fulfill a number of requirements in order to save energy during the production of high quality steel and to reliably guarantee the required vacuum level.

Learn how a special type of pumping technology, positive displacement (PD) solid-body plastic air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps, possesses the design and construction features that are necessary to guarantee full containment of dangerous chemicals, while also offering working characteristics that enable the highest level of operational efficiency to be achieved.

Under the terms of the agreement, Air Liquide will design, build, own, and operate a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) to increase steel production at NLMK’s Lipetsk site in Russia. The new unit is expected to produce 1,000 tonnes of oxygen per day.