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  1. Closing The Plastic Loop 10/22/2020

    When we started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought — if any — was given to the implications of their lifespan and the fact that they can take centuries to decompose. Consequently, as plastics have diversified and become easier to manufacture, the planet is now straddling some 8.3 billion tons of the stuff — almost every bit of plastic ever produced — without enough technology or incentives to shrink that growing pile.

  2. Lummus Awarded Contract For One Of The World's Largest Polypropylene Units 10/22/2020

    Lummus Technology today announced that its Novolen business has been awarded a contract by Hengyi Industries for a large-scale polypropylene unit in Brunei. Lummus' scope includes the technology license for 1,000 kta polypropylene unit as well as basic design engineering, training and technical services.

  3. Sinopec Qilu Successfully Starts Up DuPont™ STRATCO® Alkylation Technology 10/22/2020

    DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) is pleased to announce that the STRATCO® alkylation unit at the Sinopec Qilu refinery in Zibo, Shandong Province, China, successfully completed the performance test, certifying that the unit is meeting required performance guarantees.

  4. Launch Project To Significantly Reduce CO2 Emissions In North Sea Port 10/21/2020

    Ten partners including Fluxys are launching the North-C-Methanol project in the Ghent part of North Sea Port. The project aims at a world-class infrastructure to reduce CO2 emissions by 140,000 tonnes annually and to produce 44,000 tonnes of green methanol as feedstock for local industry and as fuel for ships and trains.

  5. Huntsman Opens New TEROL Polyols Plant In Taiwan 10/21/2020

    Huntsman Corporation today commemorated the official start-up of a new 22,000-ton TEROL aromatic polyester polyols plant at its systems house in Kuan Yin, Taiwan, with an opening ceremony at the site that was attended by key customers and employees

  6. Nouryon And Atul Receive Environmental Clearance To Expand MCA Production In India 10/21/2020

    Anaven, a 50-50 joint venture of Nouryon and Atul, has received environmental clearance from the Indian authorities for the annual production of 32,000 metric tons of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) at its new plant in Gujarat. The facility is expected to supply the first MCA to the Indian market by the end of the year.

  7. First Delivery Of Naphtha To New 80,000 m3 Cavern At Borealis Operations In Porvoo, Finland 10/21/2020

    Borealis announces that its new naphtha cavern in Porvoo, Finland has now been safely commissioned as of October 2020. Having invested around EUR 25 million in the construction of this 80,000 m3 facility, Borealis can now source and store naphtha for its Porvoo operations from the global market in a more flexible, cost-efficient, and secure way. 

  8. Qualcomm Introduces New 5G Infrastructure Platforms To Drive Cellular Ecosystem Transition To vRAN And Interoperable Networks 10/20/2020

    Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced a full portfolio of 5G infrastructure semiconductor platforms designed for broad deployment scenarios, ranging from macro base stations with massive MIMO to micro base stations with compact designs, to accelerate the cellular ecosystem transition toward virtualized and interoperable radio access networks (RAN) – a trend driven by 5G.

  9. Covestro Receives First Supply Of Certified Renewable Phenol For Polycarbonates From Borealis 10/20/2020

    As part of a strategic collaboration, Covestro received a first delivery of 1,000 tons of renewable phenol from Borealis, produced with renewable hydrocarbons from Neste

  10. AVEVA And SCG Announce Strategic Partnership To Deliver A ‘Digital Reliability Platform’ 10/19/2020

    AVEVA, the global leader in engineering and industrial software, and Chemicals Business, SCG, one of the largest petrochemical companies in Thailand and a key industry player in Asia, today announced their strategic partnership to develop a Digital Reliability Platform (DRP), a complete asset performance management (APM) solution to predict equipment health, monitor performance, and enable advanced maintenance across its operations to eliminate unplanned downtime.