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People
People | 09 July 2020

Vantage Chemicals names Stephen Doktycz as CEO

Steve has been serving as interim CEO since October 2019.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

GCP sells its corporate HQ in Cambridge, MA for $125 million

The agreement was finalized on July 2, 2020 with closing expected to take place in late July or early August 2020.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

Zuari Agro shuts down NPK fertilizer plant in Goa

Lack of manpower led to shutting down of the operations.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

Maroon group acquires Holland Chemicals

Holland Chemicals' management team, led by Jonathon Rhodes, will continue to actively manage the business on a day-to-day basis.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

Brenntag to acquire Thai finished lubes distributor

The acquisition of the business in Thailand will enlarge Brenntag’s footprint in Southeast Asia.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

Clariant partners Ineratec for production of renewable fuels and chemicals

Clariant will provide its extensive catalysis expertise and broad portfolio of syngas conditioning and upgrading catalysts to support Ineratec’s groundbreaking gas-to-liquid technology.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

NGL Fine-Chem: Capacity utilisation at 60-70%

Company does not expect any major impact on profitability due to COVID-19.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

Praj launches renewable chemicals portfolio

Decision is part of Praj’ strategy to expand its business horizons leveraging its innovative, technology solutions in Bioeconomy.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

Neles new valve technology centre in China starts operations

The greenfield investment to respond to the growing demand of reliable valve technologies was announced in October 2018.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 July 2020

UbiQD and Solvay to partner on luminescent greenhouse technology

Cooperation focuses on developing and commercializing next-generation quantum dot-based specialty agricultural films for greenhouse coverings.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 09 July 2020

Sulzer to provide distillation column technologies for a petchem plant in Nigeria

Sulzer has designed and supplied the internals for all of the refinery’s columns and the refinery is estimated to be operational by the end of 2022.

Technology
Technology | 09 July 2020

TechnipFMC awarded EPC contract for Assiut refinery in Egypt

This EPC contract covers new process units such as a Vacuum Distillation Unit, a Diesel Hydrocracking Unit, a Delayed Coker Unit, a Distillate Hydrotreating Unit as well as a Hydrogen Production Facility Unit using TechnipFMC’s steam reforming proprietary technology.

Gas
Gas | 09 July 2020

Air Liquide to invest $100 million for gas supply to SDI in Texas

The state-of-the art, energy efficient ASU will have the capacity to produce over 770 tons per day of oxygen, as well as nitrogen and argon to supply SDI’s planned 3 million tons per year steel mill starting up in 2021.

Gas
Gas | 09 July 2020

bp signs agreement with ENN for gas supply in China

Under the terms of the agreement, bp will provide ENN with 300,000 tonnes per year of pipeline gas re-gasified from LNG for two years from 1 January 2021 in Guangdong.

Chemical
Chemical | 08 July 2020

NanoXplore commissions new graphene facility in Canada

NanoXplore’s new 4,000 metric tons per year graphene facility is a fully automated production plant that enables a connected, flexible and continuous manufacturing system.

Chemical
Chemical | 08 July 2020

Govt should increase import duty on pesticides products

Indian pesticide industry is at No. 4 in the world after the US, Japan and China and presently the pesticide industry in India is estimated to be around Rs. 40,000 crore.

Chemical
Chemical | 08 July 2020

Meridian Adhesives Group Acquires E-Chem

The company serves multiple industries, including transportation authorities, petro-chemical processing, renewable energy, non-residential concrete construction and parking structure rehabilitation.

Chemical
Chemical | 08 July 2020

LG Polymers CEO among 12 arrested over Vizag gas leak mishap

The development comes on the heels of the probe report that was submitted to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Moha Reddy by the High Powered Committee (HPC) on Monday.

Chemical
Chemical | 08 July 2020

Nouryon to build hydroperoxide facility in China

The manufacturing facility is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2021 and will have an annual capacity for 35,000 tons of TBHP/TBA.

Chemical
Chemical | 08 July 2020

Bodal Chemicals quarterly income rises amid falling annual profit

The company reported a jump of 5.85% in Q4 FY20 income however its annual profits declined by 38.7%

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