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Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 30 April 2020

COVID-19 hampers oil and gas services industry business outlook

The COVID-19 pandemic impact has devastated crude oil demand as the majority of the end user industries are witnessing a slowdown amid lockdowns.

Chemical
Chemical | 30 April 2020

Linde completes divestment of selected businesses in Northern Europe

The company today announced it has completed the divestment of selected non-core assets in Northern Europe to Gasum, a Nordic gas sector and energy market expert.

Chemical
Chemical | 30 April 2020

LANXESS completes sale of its Currenta stake to Macquarie Group

LANXESS today said that it has completed the sale of its 40 percent stake in chemical park operator Currenta to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA).

Chemical
Chemical | 30 April 2020

Seqens to invest in a new IPA production plant

With this expansion, Seqens' global annual production capacity of IPA will increase by more than 70%

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 30 April 2020

HOEC announces successful D-1 well production test

HOEC has announced the successful drilling, completion and testing of its second sub-sea well through a jack-up rig, named well D-1 located in Mumbai Offshore.

Chemical
Chemical | 30 April 2020

Saint-Gobain adapts production facilities to help combat COVID-19

The company has mobilized its production facilities to manufacture medical materials and components and products that can be used to build makeshift hospitals.

Chemical
Chemical | 30 April 2020

Honeywell starts hand sanitizer manufacturing at US & Germany plants

The company’s sites in Muskegon, Michigan, and Seelze, Germany, will produce hand sanitizer over the next two months for government agencies, which will then distribute the product to institutions in need. Both sites are part of Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT) business group.

Chemical
Chemical | 30 April 2020

IIT Guwahati collaborates with Hester Biosciences Limited to develop vaccine against COVID-19

The vaccine will be based on recombinant avian paramyxovirus based vector platform. The recombinant avian paramyxovirus-1 will be used to express the immunogenic protein of SARS-CoV-2.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 30 April 2020

GP Petroleums resumes operations at its Vasai plant

The operations have commenced basis importance of lubricants to help major manufacturing plants to run smoothly.

Chemical
Chemical | 30 April 2020

India should capture significant share in world trade: Piyush Goyal

The minister called upon the exporters to identify their strengths, potentials and competitive advantages in specific sectors and focus on harnessing them in the world markets.

Chemical
Chemical | 29 April 2020

Koch Engineered Solutions launches connected solutions business

OnPoint will embed the expertise of KES’s equipment businesses into customers’ operations to improve efficiency, yield, reliability, environmental performance, and safety.

Technology
Technology | 29 April 2020

McDermott awarded multiple storage tank EPFC contracts

The company has announced that CB&I Storage Solutions has been awarded three contracts for the engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction (EPFC) of 38 tanks and 13 spheres in multiple locations across Saudi Arabia.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 29 April 2020

Reliance increases stake in SkyTran

Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Limited (RSBVL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has increased its stake in SkyTran from 17.37% to 26.31% on a fully diluted basis.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 29 April 2020

Supreme Petrochem resumes Polystyrene manufacturing

The company has started manufacturing operations of both its plants situated at Nagothane, Amdoshi, Raigad-Maharashtra and Manali, Chennai-Tamilnadu.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 29 April 2020

Wood secures partnership agreement with Sasol SA

Wood will provide integrated services to Sasol from feasibility studies and front end engineering design, through to engineering, procurement and construction

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 29 April 2020

LG Chem to increase carbon nanotube production capacity

The company announced that it will invest about 65 billion KRW ($54 million) by Q1 of next year to expand production of carbon nanotubes (CNT) by 1,200 tons at the company’s Yeosu plant.

Chemical
Chemical | 29 April 2020

Hyosung and Linde to build world's largest liquid hydrogen plant

Both companies will invest in the construction of a liquid hydrogen plant on an area of about 30,000 square meters within the site of Hyosung’s Yongyeon plant in Ulsan.

Chemical
Chemical | 29 April 2020

Covestro and ALBIS delivering plastics for face masks, ventilators, and protective eyewear

Amid the global COVID-19 crisis, Covestro and ALBIS PLASTIC GmbH are committed to making materials available for urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE), including respirator masks, ventilators and protective eyewear.

Chemical
Chemical | 29 April 2020

Record fertilizer sales during lockdown

Despite a lot of movement restrictions due to national level COVID-19 lockdown, with the concerted efforts of the Department of Fertilizers, Railways, States and Ports, production and supply of fertilizers in the country is going on without hindrance.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 28 April 2020

Axalta expands its presence in China

Company's Jiading plant in Shanghai scales up production of waterborne coatings to meet customer demand for environmentally responsible products across southern and eastern China.

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