Keyword: propylene

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Honeywell’s MTO Process for China’s Jilin Connell

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...

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PKN Orlen Hikes Propylene Capacity

25.07.2016 - Polish petrochemicals group PKN Orlen is to build a metathesis unit at its site in Plock. The unit will add capacity of 100,000 t/y polymer-grade propylene taking total output to...

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BASF Shelves Texas Propylene Plant for Now

07.06.2016 - BASF has decided to put plans for a 475,000 t/y US methane-to propylene plant in Freeport, Texas, on ice for now, citing volatile commodity prices. Managing board member Wayne T...

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SA Talke Wins Saudi Polymer Logistics Contract

05.11.2015 - SA Talke, a joint venture between Germany’s Talke Group and Saudi Industrial Services (SISCO), has been awarded a contract to carry out on-site logistics for National Petrochemical...

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Dow Tarragona Cracker Trips

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...

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Honeywell Opens Chinese Dehydrogenation Catalyst Plant

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...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

HGM Concept for Propane Dehydrogenation Unit

10.04.2015 - Clariant's Heat Generating Material (HGM) for the Catofin process demonstrated excellent performance at the propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant of Ningbo Haiyue New Material Co. in...

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PetroLogistics Investor Seeks to Block Sale to Koch

05.06.2014 - A shareholder of propylene specialist PetroLogistics LP, set to be sold by private equity and its management to Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hills, is seeking to block the $2.1...