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1. New Anellotech Technology Tackles Plastics Pollution By Recycling Plastic Waste Into Chemicals
   12/6/2019

   Sustainable technology company Anellotech is significantly expanding its program with Plas-TCat, a new process technology aiming to convert a wide range of plastic waste directly into chemicals – which can then be used to make new, virgin plastics.

2. BASF India Limited Completes Divestiture Of Stilbene-Based Optical Brightening Agents Business To Archroma India Pvt Ltd.
   12/6/2019

   BASF India Limited has closed the previously announced transaction to divest its stilbene-based Optical Brightening Agents (OBA) business for paper and powder detergents to Archroma India Private Limited effective December 06, 2019.

3. Maverick Technology Solutions Again Breaks New Ground With The Addition Of Dual Processing Conversion Plate™ For The Industry Leading ROSINBOMB™ M-60 Solventless Extraction Press
   12/5/2019

   Maverick Technology Solutions (OTC:MVRK), industry leading developer and manufacturer of the highly acclaimed ROSINBOMB™ line of extraction presses and technology, is pleased to announce another industry first, the ROSINBOMB Conversion Plate.

4. Alfa Laval Wins SEK 90 Million Petrochemical Order
   12/5/2019

   Alfa Laval - a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling - has won an order to supply large heat exchangers to a petrochemical plant in Russia.

5. Pilot Chemical Corp. Acquires Órgano Síntesis
   12/4/2019

   Pilot Chemical Corp., headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced today it has purchased Órgano Síntesis S.A. de C.V. (OSSA) located in Toluca, Mexico.

6. KBR’s Ammonia Synthesis Technology Selected For Key Project To Increase India’s Urea Capacity
   12/4/2019

   KBR has secured a contract for its ammonia synthesis technology from Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd. (WUHUAN), a leading Chinese EPC Contractor, for the Talcher fertilizer unit as part of a benchmark coal-to-urea project in India.

7. LyondellBasell Technology Selected For Polyolefin Plant In Turkey
   12/3/2019

   LyondellBasell today announced that Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim A.Ş, a joint venture between Rönesans Holding and Sonatrach S.p.A., has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a 450 KTA polypropylene unit to be constructed in Ceyhan, Turkey.

8. Shandong Binhua Selects Honeywell Technology For On-Purpose Propylene Production In China
   12/3/2019

   Honeywell announced today that Shandong Binhua New Material Co., Ltd. will use Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology to produce 600,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for a proposed plant in China.

9. Evonik To Expand Sodium Methylate Capacity In Rosario, Argentina
   12/3/2019

   Evonik plans to increase its capacity for sodium methylate at its Rosario/Santa Fe facility from 60,000 metric tons up to 90,000 metric tons until 2021.

10. Haldor Topsoe And Sasol Unite To Offer Customers Single-Point Licenses For Proven Gas-To-Liquids Solutions
    12/2/2019

    Today, Topsoe and Sasol announced that they have entered into a collaboration agreement to jointly license their GTL technologies. For many years, the two companies have worked together on numerous GTL projects and technologies, and Topsoe’s SynCOR technologies and Sasol’s Fischer-Tropsch technologies have been licensed into several world-scale GTL ventures