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Air Liquide enters a longterm partnership
for production of rare helium isotope
December 8, 2021 - Air Liquide S.A. (Paris;
www.airliquide.com) entered into a longterm
agreement with Laurentis Energy Partners to
produce and distribute helium-3 (3He), a rare
isotope of helium used in quantum computing,
astrophysics, neutron detection, medical
imaging and more. Laurentis Energy Partners
will extract helium-3 as a byproduct of the
energy produced by the Darlington powergenerating
station in Canada. Air Liquide will
use advanced cryogenics technology to purify
the isotope, then package and distribute it.
Sabic and OQ studying joint
petrochemicals complex in Oman
Sabic (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com)
signed a memorandum of understanding with
OQ Chemicals GmbH (Monheim am Rhein,
Germany; chemicals.oq.com) to study a proposed
petrochemical project in Duqm, Oman. The
project involves a world-scale steam cracker
and derivatives units producing ethylene
and propylene.
Arkema announces oleochemicals
capacity expansion in Singapore
December 6, 2021 - Arkema S.A. (Colombes,
France; www.arkema.com) announced a
50% global capacity expansion for its Oleris
oleochemicals, which includes C7, C11 and
C18 materials, comprising n-heptanoic acid,
n-heptaldehyde, undecylenic acid and Esterol
A. This new production capacity will be part of
Arkema's previously announced biomaterials
complex currently under construction on
Jurong Island, Singapore. The new capacity
is scheduled to come onstream in mid-2022.
Solvay to expand U.S. production of
copper solvent-extraction products
December 2, 2021 - Solvay S.A. (Brussels,
Belgium; www.solvay.com) plans to expand
capacity at its Mount Pleasant, Tenn. facility
in response to growing demand from mining
operations for copper solvent-extraction (SX)
products. Solvay expects the new capacity to
be commissioned by the end of 2022.
PPG starts up coatings capacity
expansion in Germany
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December 1, 2021 - PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.;
www.ppg.com) announced the startup of
expanded automotive coatings production
at its facility in Erlenbach, Germany. The
€3-million project nearly doubles the site's
capacity. PPG acquired the Erlenbach site in
2019. The expanded clearcoat facility enables
flexible manufacturing of multiple batch sizes
of up to 25 metric tons (m.t.).
Nouryon starts up organic
peroxides site in Tianjin
December 1, 2021 - Nouryon (Amsterdam,
the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) started
full-scale production at its new organic-peroxide
production site in Tianjin, China. Products
manufactured at the site include Trigonox
and Perkadox organic peroxides, as well as
Butanox methyl ethyl ketone peroxide.
Lanxess to build new engineering-plastics
production line in Changzhou
November 29, 2021 - Lanxess AG (Cologne,
Germany; www.lanxess.com) will build a second
compounding line for engineering plastics at
its manufacturing site in Changzhou, China. An
investment of around €30 million will increase
the capacity in Changzhou by 30,000 m.t./yr.
Together with existing facilities in Changzhou
and Wuxi, this will bring the company's total
compounding capacity in China to 110,000
m.t./yr. The new line is planned to go onstream
in early 2023.
Styrolution to build advanced-recycling
pilot plant for polystyrene
November 29, 2021 - Ineos Styrolution
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.ineosstyrolution.com)
plans to construct a pilot
plant for advanced recycling of polystyrene.
The site will be set up in collaboration with
Recycling Technologies in Swindon, U.K. It is
expected to be operational in the second half of
2022. The Swindon pilot plant will be based on
Recycling Technologies' fluidized-bed reactor
technology for polystyrene depolymerization.
BP to build large-scale
green-hydrogen plant in the U.K.
November 29, 2021 - BP plc (London;
www.bp.com) is planning a new, large-scale
" green " hydrogen production facility in the
northeastern region of the U.K. that could
deliver up to 500-megawatt electrical input
(MWe) of hydrogen production by 2030. To
be developed in multiple stages, the HyGreen
Teesside project is expected to start production
by 2025, with an initial phase of 60 MWe of
installed hydrogen production capacity.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Trinseo to acquire European plastics
recycling firm Heathland B.V.
December 8, 2021 - Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.
trinseo.com) agreed to acquire Heathland B.V.,
a plastic waste collector and recycler based in
Utrecht, the Netherlands. Heathland is focused
on converting post-consumer-recycled (PCR)
and post-industrial-recycled (PIR) polymethyl
methacrylate (PMMA), polycarbonate (PC),
acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polystyrene
(PS) and other thermoplastic waste.
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