Tag: chemicals

Japan's Kobe Steel has expanded its scrap and recycling business from metals to plastics by signing an agreement in early June with Belgium chemical producer Solvay for promoting the latter's PVC recycling know-how in Japan.

The company Goro Nickel, of the Canadian group INCO, has signed a contract with Technip-Coflexip in association with the American group Bechtel, for the engineering, project management, procurement of equipment and materials and construction of a nickel-cobalt production complex at Goro, in the south of New Caledonia.

ChevronTexaco Corp. and Phillips Petroleum Co. have announced that their chemical business joint venture plans to build a USD 1 billion addition to an existing chemical plant in Saudi Arabia.

BOC and Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec-YPC), a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group, have formed a joint venture known as Nanjing BOC-YPC Gases Company Ltd (BYG) to meet expanding industrial gases requirements in Nanjing, China.

Japanese chemical firm Asahi Kasei Corp. and DuPont's China unit will build a resin plant in China to capitalise on the world's fastest growing market.

Kvaerner has signed a contract valued at approximately EUR 15 million with Teijin Twaron, one of the world's largest producers of high-performance fibres.

Technip-Coflexip has been awarded by SABIC a contract for the design and construction of an acetic acid plant in SABIC's Arabian Industrial Fibers Company Complex in the industrial city of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Chevron Phillips boosts Cyclohexane capacity Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLP has announced that Saudi Chevron Phillips Company (SCP) is expanding its cyclohexane capacity in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia, by 200 million gallons to 95 million gallons to supply its existing customer base.

Akzo Nobel Coatings is investing EUR 12 million in its powder coatings facility at Cernobbio, Italy.

As part of its expansion into the refinery technology market, Dortmund-based Krupp Uhde has acquired the engineering and plant construction company TESSAG Edeleanu GmbH, Alzenau, from the RWE Solutions group.