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Chemours breaks ground on $93-million
mining facility in Florida
July 14, 2021 - The Chemours Co. (Wilmington,
Del.; www.chemours.com) recently held a
groundbreaking ceremony for a new $93-million
mining facility in Clay County, Fla. This site
will give Chemours additional access to
concentrated deposits of titanium and zircon
mineral sands, which are used to produce
titanium dioxide. Startup is anticipated by
the fourth quarter of 2022.
Vynova to build
potassium carbonate plant in Belgium
July 14, 2021 - Vynova Group (Tessenderlo,
Belgium; www.vynova-group.com) will build a
production plant for liquid potassium carbonate
at its site in Tessenderlo, Belgium. The new
plant, representing an investment of €4 million,
is expected to be operational by mid-2022.
Construction is due to start in the third quarter
of 2021. The new facility will be the largest
plant of its kind in Europe.
Shell starts up 10-MW
green-hydrogen plant in Germany
July 13, 2021 - Royal Dutch Shell (The
Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com)
announced that its 10-MW water electrolysis
plant has started operations at Shell Energy
and Chemicals Park Rheinland in Wesseling,
Germany. The plant will produce up to 1,300
metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of green hydrogen.
Shell is also planning to build a 100-MW
electrolysis plant at the site, with construction
planned to start as soon as 2022.
Haldor Topsoe to build new catalyst
plant in Texas
July 13, 2021 - Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby,
Denmark; www.topsoe.com) will build a new
hydroprocessing-catalyst plant at the company's
existing Bayport production site in Pasadena,
Tex. The plant is designed to produce 15,000
m.t./yr of catalysts to meet increasing demand,
both in traditional petroleum refining and the
production of renewable diesel and jet fuel.
The plant is expected to be fully operational
in the first half of 2023.
Repsol to build two new polymers
plants in Portugal
July 12, 2021 - Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain;
www.repsol.com) will build two polymer
materials plants at its Sines Industrial Complex
in Portugal, representing an investment of
€657 million. The facilities will be operational in
2025. The project includes a linear polyethylene
plant and a polypropylene plant, each with
a capacity of 300,000 m.t./yr.
Siemens to build one of Germany's
largest green-hydrogen plants
July 12, 2021 - Siemens AG (Munich,
Germany; www.siemens.com) has started
construction on a hydrogen production plant
with a capacity of 8.75 MW. The facility will
produce up to 1,350 m.t./yr of hydrogen using
only renewable energy. The new hydrogen
plant is scheduled to go into operation in the
summer of 2022.
MOL Group and Tatneft to construct new
rubber bitumen plant in Tartarstan
July 12, 2021 - MOL Group (Budapest,
Hungary; www.molgroup.info) and Tatneft
(Almetyevsk, Republic of Tartarstan, Russia;
www.tatneft.ru) have launched a joint project
for a rubber bitumen plant in the Republic
of Tatarstan, which will have a production
capacity of about 20,000 m.t./yr. The
companies have also agreed to establish
a joint venture that, besides manufacturing
and selling rubber bitumen, will also pursue
technology licensing.
Dow to increase propylene glycol
production capacity in Thailand
July 6, 2021 - Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.; www.
dow.com) announced that its Polyurethanes
& Construction Chemicals business plans to
increase propylene glycol (PG) capacity at
its existing facility in Map Ta Phut, Thailand
by 80,000 m.t./yr, bringing total capacity
to 250,000 m.t./yr. Once complete, this
expansion will make the Dow Map Ta Phut
PG facility the largest of its kind in the Asia
Pacific region. The capacity expansion is
expected to come online in 2024.
Kemira to increase production of watertreatment
chemicals in China
July 1, 2021 -Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland;
www.kemira.com) is increasing production
capacity of water-treatment chemicals in
Yanzhou, China. Kemira has started to build
a new sodium-hypochlorite production unit at
Yanzhou site. It is expected to start commercial
production in January 2022. Kemira is also
finalizing the pre-engineering phase for an
investment to increase the production of
polyaluminum chloride (PAC) at Yanzhou.
Röhm to build MMA plant
on U.S Gulf Coast
June 30, 2021 - Röhm GmbH (Darmstadt,
Germany; www.roehm.com) has started
engineering and construction work on a new
production plant for methyl methacrylate (MMA)
in Bay City, Tex. Röhm expects mechanical
completion in 2023. The new plant will have
a production capacity of 250,000 m.t./yr.
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