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Entegris to expand production capacity
of Electronic Chemicals facilities
January 12, 2023 - Entegris, Inc. (Billerica,
Mass.; www.entegris.com) plans to increase
production and purification capacity for its
Pueblo, Colo. and Hollister, Calif. sites to
support the anticipated increase in demand
for its Electronic Chemicals business. The
Electronic Chemicals business is part of Entegris'
Advanced Planarization Solutions division and
includes ultra-high-purity acids, bases, solvents
and formulated blend chemistries for use by
semiconductor manufacturers.
Chemours to expand production of ionexchange
materials in France
January 12, 2023 - The Chemours Co.
(Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com)
announced a $200-million investment to
increase capacity and advance technology
for its Nafion ion-exchange materials at the
company's manufacturing facility in VillersSaint-Paul,
France. The project will include
the expansion of ionomer production and
associated membranes to deliver additional
capacity in the Nafion materials supply chain
to support growing market demand for cleanhydrogen
generation using water electrolyzers.
LG Chem plans to produce plastics from
marine-waste materials
January 12, 2023 - LG Chem (Seoul, South
Korea; www.lgchem.com) is partnering
NETSPA in building a resource-circulation
system for recycling marine wastes. Through
this agreement, LG Chem will secure raw
materials for its pyrolysis-oil plant in Dangjin,
South Korea, which is scheduled to begin
operations in 2024. Once NETSPA sorts and
processes plastics from marine wastes, such
as discarded fishing nets, LG Chem will use
it to produce recycled plastics.
BASF breaks ground on MDI capacity
expansion project at Geismar site
January 11, 2023 - BASF SE (Ludwigshafen,
Germany; www.basf.com) has broken ground
on the third and final phase of the methylene
diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) expansion project at
its Verbund site in Geismar, La. The company will
increase production capacity to approximately
600,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The
investment for this final expansion phase, which
takes place from 2022 to 2025, amounts to
$780 million.
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Raven SR, Chevron and Hyzon to produce
hydrogen from waste in California
January 10, 2023 - Chevron Corp. (San Ramon,
Calif.; www.chevron.com) is collaborating with
Raven SR and Hyzon Motors to commercialize
operations of a green waste-to-hydrogen
production facility located in Richmond,
Calif. Raven SR will be the operator of the
facility, which is targeted to come online in the
first quarter of 2024. The project is expected
to divert up to 99 m.t./d of landfill waste
into the plant's non-combustion reforming
process, producing up to 2,400 m.t./yr of
renewable hydrogen.
SK Geo Centric and Plastic Energy
building world-scale recycling plant
January 11, 2023 - SK Geo Centric (Seoul,
South Korea; eng.skgeocentric.com) and Plastic
Energy (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.
com) plan to build a pyrolysis plant in the Ulsan
plastic-recycling complex. SK Geo Centric will
start construction on the plant this year, which
is anticipated to have a processing capacity
of 66,000 m.t./yr of end-of-life plastic waste
input, the largest capacity in Asia.
Sumitomo Chemical completes pilot
facility for acrylic-resin recycling
January 3, 2023 - Sumitomo Chemical Co.
(Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp)
constructed a new pilot facility for the chemical
recycling of acrylic resin (polymethyl methacrylate)
in Niihama City, Japan. With Japan Steel Works,
Ltd., Sumitomo Chemical has jointly developed
a technology for pyrolyzing acrylic resin and
recycling it into methyl methacrylate (MMA)
monomer, a raw material for acrylic resin.
Black & Veatch to deliver desalination
plant to major copper smelter in Indonesia
January 3, 2023 - Black & Veatch (Overland
Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) will design and
manage the delivery of a seawater desalination
plant for PT Freeport Indonesia's Manyar
Smelter in East Java. The desalination plant
will produce over 1,400 m3/h of desalinated
seawater to support the copper smelter and
precious-metals refinery. Designed to process
1.7 million m.t./yr of copper concentrate, the
$3-billion Manyar Smelter is anticipated to
be the world's largest designed single-line
copper-processing facility.
Mergers & Acquisitions
ExxonMobil to divest its
interest in Esso Thailand
January 12, 2023 - ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston;
www.exxonmobil.com) reached an agreement
with Bangchak Corp. to sell its interest in Esso
Thailand, including the Sriracha petroleum
refinery and select distribution terminals. The
transaction will be executed by ExxonMobil's
affiliate, ExxonMobil Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd,
which holds 65.99% interest in Esso Thailand.
The transaction is expected to close in the
second half of 2023.
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