Current Headlines
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OQEMA And BASF Collaborate On Amines In The UK And Ireland
2/29/2024
BASF has strengthened its partnership with OQEMA, one of Europe’s leading chemical distributors, with regard to BASF’s standard amines portfolio excluding ethanolamines in the UK and Ireland, effective January 1, 2024.
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ARLANXEO Announces Construction Of A New Therban HNBR Plant In China
2/29/2024
ARLANXEO, a global leader in performance elastomers, today announced the planned construction of a hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR) plant in Changzhou, China.
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Linde Engineering To Deliver World-Scale Coastal CO2 Liquefaction Plant To Yara
2/29/2024
Linde Engineering has signed a contract with global fertilizer manufacturer Yara to build a world-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) liquefaction plant in Sluiskil, the Netherlands.
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Stamicarbon (MAIRE Group) Signed To License A New Urea Melt And Granulation Plant In Egypt
2/27/2024
Stamicarbon, the nitrogen technology licensor of MAIRE engineering group, has been awarded a licensing and equipment supply contract for a state-of-the-art urea melt and granulation plant in Egypt for El-Nasr Company for Intermediate Chemicals (NCIC).
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LyondellBasell Selects Emerson To Modernize Automation Technology At Olefins Production Plants
2/27/2024
Global software and technology leader Emerson has been selected by multinational chemical company LyondellBasell to modernize control systems and software at its Wesseling complex in Germany.
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AI-Driven Lab Speeds Catalysis Research
2/27/2024
Researchers have developed a “self-driving” lab that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems to provide in-depth analyses of catalytic reactions used in chemical research and manufacturing.
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Clean Ammonia Production Project In Lake Charles, U.S.A.
2/27/2024
Idemitsu Kosan ("Idemitsu") has agreed with Mitsubishi Corporation ("MC") and Proman to participate in the development of the proposed clean ammonia production project(*) in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.A. (“Project”).
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Mitsui Chemicals To Increase XDI Production Capacity
2/26/2024
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. today announced that it has decided to increase production capacity at the meta-Xylylene Diisocyanate (XDI) plant within its Omuta Works in response to growing demand for hardeners used in hardly yellowing coatings. This would make the expansion of domestic production capacity by 20 percent.
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thyssenkrupp Uhde Signs Agreement With Delta Company For Fertilizer And Chemical Industries To Recommission An Ammonia Plant In Dakahlia, Egypt
2/22/2024
thyssenkrupp Uhde Egypt has signed a contract with Egypt-based Delta Company for Fertilizer and Chemical Industries to revamp an existing ammonia plant complex located in Dakahlia, Talkha, Egypt. Delta focuses mainly on sustainable and environmentally friendly fertilizer projects in the Arab fertilizer industry.
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Looking At The Importance Of Catalyst Sites In Electrochemical CO2 Conversion
2/22/2024
Intense research efforts have been directed toward studying the electrochemical conversion of CO2, a major greenhouse gas, into platform chemicals and fuels.