01.11.2016
- China’s Jilin Connell Chemical Industry has selected Honeywell UOP’s Advanced Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) process for a new plant that will convert local coal resources into ethylene...
21.10.2016
- French engineering contractor Technip has been awarded a contract by Kazanorgsintez, Russia’s largest PE producer and one of the country’s biggest chemical companies, to provide...
08.09.2016
- Williams Partners is looking to sell its majority 88.5% stake in the Geismar, Lousiana, USA, olefins plant as it seeks further funds to expand its natural gas business. The...
01.08.2016
- LyondellBasell is to go ahead with plans to build an HDPE plant on the US Gulf Coast based on its newly developed proprietary Hyperzone technology. CEO Bob Patel revealed during a...
10.11.2015
- Ineos is emerging more and more as an indirect supplier and potential direct provider of shale gas-derived ethane to third parties rather than just a consumer. Hardly a day goes by...
12.10.2015
- The cracker at Dow Iberica’s production complex in Tarragona, Spain, is down after an incident on Oct. 8, Spanish press reports suggest. Dow reported that propylene gas escaping...
30.04.2015
- Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies division has opened a new plant at Zhangjiagang City in China's Jiangsu Province to produce state-of the-art catalysts used in...
24.03.2015
- The sharp drop in oil prices in the second half of last year is causing some dilemmas not only for individual chemical producers in Europe, particularly those making petrochemicals...
