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ARCHROMA
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EVONIK
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HUNTSMAN
INDORAMA
INEOS STYROLUTION
LANXESS
MCDERMOTT
MESSER
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NEXT WAVE ENERGY
SASOL
SOLVAY
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UMICORE
Plant Watch
Messer to build onsite gas facility for
MOL polyols plant in Hungary
December 12, 2019 - Messer Group GmbH
(Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.
com) will construct a new onsite gas facility
for MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.
molgroup.info) in Tiszaújváros, Hungary. The
plant will supply nitrogen and instrument air for
MOL's new polyols complex, which is due to
begin operations in 2021. With approximately
14,500 m3/h of nitrogen and 27,000 m3/h of
instrument air, this plant will be one of Messer's
largest onsite facilities in southeast Europe.
Serba Dinamik taps thyssenkrupp to build
modular chlorine plant in Uzbekistan
December 12, 2019 - Thyssenkrupp
Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany;
www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.
com) has secured a contract with Serba
Dinamik International for the engineering and
procurement of a new modular chlor-alkali
plant. The greenfield plant, which will have a
processing capacity of 90 tons/d of chlorine,
will be built in the Hazarasp Free Economic
Zone in Uzbekistan. The new plant will produce
caustic soda flakes, liquid chlorine and sodium
hypochlorite. The plant's startup is planned
for the second quarter of 2022.
McDermott awarded contract for Next
Wave alkylate production facility
December 12, 2019 - McDermott International,
Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) was
awarded a technology contract for Next Wave
Energy Partners' (Houston; www.nextwaveenergy.
com) grassroots alkylate production facility in
Pasadena, Tex. The new alkylate site will have
a nameplate capacity of 28,000 barrels per
day (bbl/d). Next Wave expects production
to commence by mid-2022.
Ineos Styrolution and Agilyx planning a
polystyrene-recycling plant in Illinois
December 9, 2019 - Ineos Styrolution
(Frankfurt, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.
com) and Agilyx (Tigard, Ore.; www.agilyx.
com) are advancing the development of a
polystyrene chemical-recycling facility in
Channahon, Ill. The facility will be capable of
processing up to 100 ton/d of post-consumer
polystyrene and converting it into a styrene
product that will go into the manufacture of new
polystyrene products.
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Evonik to increase sodium methylate
production capacity in Argentina
December 3, 2019 - Evonik Industries AG
(Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) plans
to increase its capacity for sodium methylate
at its Rosario/Santa Fe facility in Argentina
from 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) up
to 90,000 m.t./yr. The expansion is driven
by growing demand for biodiesel in South
America. Sodium methylate is an important
catalyst for large-scale biodiesel production.
Solvay to double capacity at
Changshu PVDF plant
November 26, 2019 - Solvay S.A. (Brussels,
Belgium; www.solvay.com) is more than
doubling its production capacity of highperformance,
polymer-grade polyvinylidene
fluoride (PVDF) at its production site in
Changshu, China. The expansion is driven
by growth demand for PVDF in applications
in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
BASF commences its smart Verbund
project in Zhanjiang, China
November 24, 2019 - BASF SE (Ludwigshafen,
Germany; www.basf.com) has launched its
smart Verbund project in Zhanjiang, China,
and commenced building its first plants.
It marks a milestone of the company's
$10-billion investment project. The first
plants will produce engineering plastics and
thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). By 2022,
the new engineering-plastics compounding
plant will supply an additional capacity of
60,000 m.t./yr in China, bringing BASF's total
capacity of these products in the Asia Pacific
region to 290,000 m.t./yr.
Mergers & Acquisitions
DuPont to acquire
RO specialist Desalitech
December 11, 2019 - DuPont (Wilmington,
Del.; www.dupont.com) signed an agreement
to acquire Desalitech Ltd. (Boston, Mass.;
www.desalitech.com), a closed-circuit reverse
osmosis (CCRO) company. Desalitech's patented
technology has been deployed at more than
200 sites over the past seven years.
BP and Arzeda enter second phase of
renewable chemicals collaboration
December 11, 2019 - BP plc (London; www.
bp.com) and Arzeda (Seattle, Wash.; www.
azeda.com) have entered a second extended
collaboration agreement for developing a
renewable-chemical bioprocessing technology.
The second phase of the project aims to
accelerate commercialization of the target
chemical. Arzeda reached a major deliverable in
the previous engagement, which set the stage
for BP to move to this extended agreement.
Archroma finalizes acquisition of BASF's
stilbene-based OBA business
December 6, 2019 - Archroma (Basel,
Switzerland; www.archroma.com) has completed
the acquisition of BASF's stilbene-based OBA
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