Keyword: Acids

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KBR Acquires Acetic Acid Technology

27.03.2023 -

US multinational engineering group KBR has acquired an acetic acid technology called Acetica for an undisclosed sum. The carbonylation technology, which was owned and...

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Manufacturing Partially Saturated Free Fatty Acids with Evonik Catalysts

23.03.2023 -

In oleochemical production, partially saturated free fatty acids are an important alternative raw material to their fully saturated counterparts. Their manufacture can...

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Afyren Sites Second Organic Acids Plant in Thailand

01.02.2023 -

French greentech firm Afyren will build a second bio-based organic acids plant, this time in Thailand, adding to a first facility in France. Marking its first...

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Fluid Energy Sells Acid Business to Dorf Ketal

13.01.2023 -

Canada’s Fluid Energy Group has sold its global modified and synthetic acid business, including the Triton industrial business, to Dorf Ketal FZE, a wholly owned...

Chemicals & Distribution

Manufacturing Saturated Free Fatty Acids for Oleochemical Applications

Evonik Industries AG -

Fully saturated free fatty acids are an important feedstock for the oleochemical industry.

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Ineos Mulls Acetic acid Unit in US

20.06.2022 -

Ineos Acetyls has launched a feasibility study to explore building a world scale plant for acetic acid and derivatives on the US Gulf coast.

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Fufeng to Toll Manfacture Evonik’s L-threonine in China

12.01.2018 - German chemical producer Evonik has signed a toll manufacturing agreement with China’s Fufeng Group that will see Fufeng produce Evonik’s L-threonine amino acid in China, using the...

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Tecnimont and Mitsubishi in Propylene Pact

02.01.2018 - Metgas Processing Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Italian engineering group Maire Tecnimont, has executed a framework agreement with Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical to...