Sustainability
Sustainability | 04 October 2022

Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, Chimei and Mitsubishi to create a renewable plastic supply chain

The bio-SM production in Japan and the renewable plastics production in Taiwan will mark the first of such production in each country

Supply Chain
Supply Chain | 04 October 2022

Azelis expands agreement with Momentive for Indian industrial chemicals

Azelis will now distribute Momentive’s portfolio of polyurethane additives for the mattress, furniture and other industrial sub-segments in India.

Technology
Technology | 04 October 2022

KBR bags contract for blue ammonia project from Tecnimont

KBR will supply the technology license, basic engineering design, proprietary equipment and catalyst for the 1.1 million ton per annum blue ammonia plant.

Technology
Technology | 04 October 2022

Technip Energies bags FEED contract for Ineos’ ethane cracker project

The cracker is designed using Technip Energies’ latest enhancement on technologies to achieve a CO2 footprint less than 50% of the best 10% of European crackers.

General
General | 04 October 2022

Borealis restarts PDH construction site in Kallo with Ponticelli as contractor

Restart of construction works as of 3 October 2022, focused on the mechanical works and highly specialized piping of Borealis’ new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Kallo, Belgium

General
General | 04 October 2022

Rallis India conferred ICC–K. V. Mariwala Award for Industry-Academia partnership

The company, in collaboration with the ICT, Mumbai worked to identify gaps and establish process/technology focusing on improving batch cycle time, impurity profiling, and yield improvement

General
General | 04 October 2022

BPCL recognized as 'Most Preferred Brands' by Team Marksmen

The Most Trusted Brands of India 2022 represents a galaxy of brand names that have been shining beacons of hope for those that look up to and repose their faith in them

Gas
Gas | 04 October 2022

GAIL focusing on new energy segments: CMD

The company has carved out a robust petrochemical expansion move to further strengthen its business

People
People | 03 October 2022

EIL appoints Ashok Kumar Kalra as Director (Projects)

Handa attains the age of superannuation on 30th September, 2022.

Supply Chain
Supply Chain | 03 October 2022

13 organisations sign NDA to access data on Unified Logistics Interface Platform

NDAs with 11 more organisations like Instavans & Trucks, Bosch India, Portlinks, Shiprocket, etc. are still in the process

General
General | 03 October 2022

DuPont mergers of Rogers delayed

The approval remains pending from the State Administration for Market Regulation of China.

Chemical
Chemical | 03 October 2022

Trinseo seeks closure of styrene monomer production site in Boehlen, Germany

The facility, which has a nameplate annual capacity of 300 kilotons, generated negative profitability of approximately $30 million over the last four quarters ending Q2 2022.

Supply Chain
Supply Chain | 03 October 2022

ChemConnect 2022: Digital tools bring transparency into procurement process

The purchase department is one of the most audited one yet highly under-appreciated

Digitization
Digitization | 03 October 2022

ChemConnect 2022: We are breaking the myth that e-commerce can’t be done online

Mukund Vasudevan, Managing Director, Enterprise Solutions, Moglix explains how his company is ushering digitalization in chemical supply chain

Energy
Energy | 02 October 2022

India set a target of 500 GW clean energy by 2030

India was well on track to create 1 billion tonne Carbon sink through afforestation and rejuvenation.

General
General | 02 October 2022

LyondellBasell postpones restart of ethylene cracker in Berre, France

The chemical company's French ethylene cracker was damaged by a fire on August 2.

Chemical
Chemical | 02 October 2022

SI Group expands production capacity of aminic antioxidant

Company adding capacity to produce Ethanox 4757 aminic antioxidant in India

General
General | 02 October 2022

BASF closes divestiture of its kaolin minerals business

The co-located refinery catalysts operations will continue to be owned and operated by BASF’s refinery catalysts business and are not part of the divestiture.

General
General | 02 October 2022

ICC recognizes exceptional performance in chemical industry

Bharat Puri, Prof. Vinay A. Juvekar and Vinod Saraf receive Lifetime Achievement Award.

People
People | 02 October 2022

S. Bharathan assumes charge as Director (Refineries), HPCL

He has wide exposure to the refinery operations of the company and has worked in Operations and Technical departments of Mumbai and Visakh Refinery for over 25 years

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