Keyword: feedstocks

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Air Liquide Takes MCC Butene License

07.09.2017 - Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Air Liquide E&C), the plant-building arm of the French industrial gases producer, has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Chemical...

Markets & Companies

A Visible Turning Point for Oxea

07.02.2017 - Ten years ago, in March 2007, oxo chemicals producer Oxea was established as a buyout led by private-equity firm Advent International of oxo derivatives and oxo intermediates...

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Covestro Doubles PC Capacity in Shanghai

24.10.2016 - With the inauguration of two world-scale production lines, Covestro has doubled production capacity for the engineering plastic polycarbonate from 200,000 to 400,000 t/y at its...

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BASF Inaugurates TDI Plant at Ludwigshafen

18.11.2015 - BASF inaugurated its new €1 billion TDI complex at Ludwigshafen on Nov. 16 at a ceremony attended by Germany’s vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, and the prime minister of the state...

Sites & Services

Bavaria’s “Region of Renewable Raw Materials”

28.10.2015 - Straubing is the Region of Renewable Raw Materials. Here, the Free State of Bavaria is clustering its activities and expertise regarding research, education, innovation...

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HCS and Neste in Renewable Distillates Pact

18.06.2015 - Germany’s Haltermann Carless Solutions (HCS Group), global manufacturer of hydrocarbon and chemical specialty products, and Finland-based Neste, producer of premium renewable fuels...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

New Opportunities for Process Chemical Producers

04.06.2014 - Refining and Petrochemicals - The golden age of refining which peaked in the first decade of this century is over. Now oil refining has become a far more complex operation. Since...

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Opinion - U.S. Target Fails To Spur Synthetic Diesel

21.08.2013 - Technologies for producing synthetic diesel from waste have failed to step up to rapidly rising U.S. biofuel targets, leaving the long-term future of those targets further in doubt...