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Lummus Technology and Texplore have agreed to license and market EXCENETM - Texplore’s high-density polyethylene (HDPE) technology.
Under the agreement, Lummus will exclusively license Texplore’s EXCENE HDPE technology. Lummus will also provide engineering design for plant construction, services for plant commissioning and start-up, and additional life cycle services, while Texplore will…
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Gevo and LG Chem have entered into a joint development agreement to develop bio-propylene for renewable chemicals using Gevo’s Ethanol-to-Olefins (ETO) technology.
Gevo’s proprietary ETO technology can target carbon neutral or carbon negative drop-in replacements for traditional petroleum-based building blocks called olefins, including bio-propylene that can be used for renewable chemicals…
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NOVA Chemicals Corporation and Enerkem are advancing their versatile and energy efficient chemical recycling technology to pilot stage in Edmonton, Alberta.
The funding, provided through Alberta Innovates’ Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Economic Recovery Program has enabled the companies to expedite construction of a pilot-scale reactor system that converts syngas produced from…
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NextChem has acquired a 51% stake in MyRemono, a newly established company to which Biorenova transferred patents, assets, including a demonstration plant and contracts related to CatC, an innovative plastic catalytic depolymerisation technology.
CatC is a continuous chemical recycling process to recover monomers with ultra-high levels of purity from sorted plastic waste, particularly…
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Technip Energies has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Juhua Chemical and Science for a 1.3-propanediol (PDO) plant with a capacity of producing 72,000 tpy as well as 150,000 tpy of polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT).
The plant will be built in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
These two products are based on Technip Energies’ proprietary Zimmer® PDO and PTT technologies to strengthen and expand…
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Clariant has opened its new CATOFIN catalyst production site in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China.
Investing in innovations such as CATOFIN is a core element of Clariant’s new purpose-led strategy.
The site also serves to increase the already expanding footprint in China, adding on to the existing nearby catalyst plants in Jinshan and catalyst R&D centre within the One Clariant Campus in…
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Toymaker LEGO said it has agreed to buy e-methanol, a lower-carbon alternative to conventional plastic ingredients, for use in its plastic bricks when the world's first large-scale plant starts operations next year.
Privately owned renewable energy firm European Energy, which is developing the plant in Aabenraa, Denmark, said Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk will also buy its e-methanol to…
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Aramco has signed definitive agreements to acquire a 10% interest in Shenzhen-listed Rongsheng Petrochemical for $3.6 billion (€3.2 billion) in a deal that will expand its downstream presence in China.
Through the strategic arrangement, Aramco will supply 480,000 bpd of Arabian crude oil to Rongsheng affiliate Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical (ZPC), under a long-term sales agreement. Aramco…
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Neste has successfully concluded its second series of industrial-scale processing runs with liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
The goal of the processing runs is to further increase the company’s understanding of how different types of waste plastics behave during chemical recycling in the refinery processes. The end product gained in the runs – Neste RE™, a…
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Sulzer Chemtech has completed the start-up of the world’s largest facility for styrene extraction from pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) derived from naphtha cracking.
Located in Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co’s (ZPC) integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, China, the unit uses Sulzer Chemtech’s proprietary GT-Styrene® licensed technology to produce 100,000 tonnes of…
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Technip Energies has been awarded a contract by CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals for the Huizhou Phase III project - a liquid ethylene cracker located in Huizhou, China.
Technip Energies is providing the proprietary technology and process design for CSPC’s 1,600 KTA plant.
This liquid ethylene cracker pioneers the use of a low CO2 furnace design and electrification of major compressors. The…
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Lummus Technology has announced that Butadiene has selected its iC4 CATOFIN®, CATADIENE®, CDMtbe® technologies and BASF's butadiene extraction technology for a new petrochemical facility.
This will be applied at the new petrochem plant in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
The scope of this award includes the technology license and basic engineering for four process units.
Once complete, the units will…
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Emerson will give automation technologies, software and analytics from its Plantweb™ digital ecosystem for the Golden Triangle Polymers Project on the Texas Gulf Coast.
The total installed cost of the project is expected to be $8.5 billion (€7.9 billion) and is a joint venture between Chevron Phillips Chemical Company and an indirect subsidiary of QatarEnergy. Operations are expected to…
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China will dominate new petrochemical project starts in Asia, according to new analysis.
The country is likely to start operations of 410 petrochemical projects from 2023 to 2027, according to GlobalData.
GlobalData’s latest report, Petrochemicals New Build and Expansion Projects Analysis by Type, Development Stage, Key Countries, Region and Forecasts, 2023-2027, reveals that China will…
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QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company marked the ground-breaking of the Golden Triangle Polymers Plant.
This signalled the beginning of construction of the petrochemical facility in Orange County, Texas, US.
The landmark event was attended by senior QatarEnergy executives as well as Bruce Chinn, the president and CEO of Chevron Phillips Chemical, Mark Lashier, the president and CEO…
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Sulzer advanced separation technology will enable end-of-life plastics recycling at Indaver’s first plastic depolymerisation plant under construction in Antwerp, Belgium.
The new Plastics2Chemicals (P2C) plant will drive polymer circularity by using Sulzer separation technology to reclaim and purify 30,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year. The resulting pure chemical feedstock can then be…
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Neste and ILLIG have entered into a strategic partnership to advance the use of more sustainable solutions in the production of thermoformed plastic packaging through demonstration cases.
The partners combine Neste’s expertise in providing renewable and recycled materials for polymers production and ILLIG’s expertise in manufacturing thermoforming systems to create practical showcases.
In…
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Topsoe and CIP have signed an agreement under which Topsoe will deliver its leading SynCOR™ technology to produce blue ammonia at the facility to be built on the US Gulf Coast.
Blue ammonia is ammonia (NH3) that is produced from blue hydrogen. To produce blue hydrogen, natural gas and steam are reformed into two production streams of pure hydrogen (H2) and pure CO2 with the CO2 stream captured…
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