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Chemical Management, Market Outlook

Globenewswire | July 19, 2023

NOVA Chemicals Corporation has made a significant expansion of its Circular Solutions business today by announcing an investment into developing its first mechanical recycling facility in Connersville, Ind. The facility will process post-consumer plastic films to produce the company’s SYNDIGO™ recycled polyethylene (rPE) at commercial scale as early as 2025, delivering over 100 million pounds of rPE to the market by 2026. NOVA Chemicals plans to expand its recycling footprint o...

Chemical Management

McDermott | October 18, 2021

McDermott has signed a Letter of Guarantee to deliver engineering and procurement for the ethylene cracker of the Gas Chemical Complex (GCC) project—the largest polyethylene integration project in the world—with China National Chemical Engineering and Construction Corporation Seven, Ltd (CC7). This agreement follows McDermott's safe and successful delivery of the front end engineering design (FEED) and early works phases of the project. The ethane cracker project i...

Chemical Management

International Petroleum Corporation | February 07, 2022

A new business, Refhuel, which will focus on reversible fuel cell technology launches. It’s the result of a license agreement signed between Refhuel Limited, a subsidiary of Decama Capital Ltd, an Israeli investment company headquartered in the UK and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and BIRAD, Bar-Ilan University’s research and development company. The pioneering technology to allow reversible fuel cells, which is already in development, has been w...

Yahoo Finance | April 01, 2020

Chemical companies across the globe have ramped up efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic that continues to spread with no signs of abating. The global chemical industry is scaling up the supply of essential products – from raw materials for hand sanitizers to personal protective equipment (PPE) materials – in response to this health predicament. With the number of coronavirus cases around the world continuing to climb, demand for preventive products has skyrocketed. Critical ite...