02.03.2018
- China’s Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol PP technology for a new plant to be built in Heze City, Shandong province. The facility will have a...
16.02.2018
- Rotterdam-headquartered, Houston-managed olefins and polyolefins giant LyondellBasell has announced plans to acquire Akron, Ohio-based compounding specialist A. Schulman for $2.25...
09.01.2018
- In the run-up to its merger with DuPont, Dow last year announced investments worth $4 billion to be realized over the next five years, including an expansion of its Texas cracker...
13.11.2017
- Brazilian petrochemical group Braskem is cooperating with Danish catalysts producer Haldor Topsoe to develop a new route to produce MEG from sugar. The project is based on a two...
01.11.2017
- Will LyondellBasell and Braskem be the next two companies to enter a marriage of convenience? It is yet unclear how much weight a report by the US financial newspaper Wall Street...
26.10.2017
- Netherlands-headquartered, US-managed LyondellBasell is planning to build a new chemicals and plastics complex on the Gulf Coast, CEO Bob Patel has told the Texas newspaper Houston...
11.10.2017
- Major US engineering and construction group Fluor has won a contract to provide engineering and procurement services for LyondellBasell’s proposed propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary...
21.09.2017
- Petrochemical plants on the US Gulf Coast are starting to resume operations after Hurricane Harvey left behind a trail of destruction. Refineries and chemical plants had been shut...
