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CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT

PureCycle Technologies | July 30, 2021

PureCycle Technologies, Inc. has agreed to establish its first U.S. cluster plant to make ultra-pure recycled polypropylene (rPP) from waste polypropylene with The Augusta Economic Development Authority (PP). The 200-acre site at Augusta Corporate Park will produce over 80 manufacturing jobs, with an initial $440 million investment largely funding three lines with a capacity of 130mm pounds during Phase 1 of the project. Augusta-Richmond County was chosen because of its feed and product delivery...

MARKET OUTLOOK

Ceresana | March 26, 2021

The construction industry currently uses almost half of all paints and coatings that are sold. Large-scale projects for infrastructure or commercial construction are hardly ever directly affected by crises, and the demand for living space continues to grow in densely populated countries. The sales of paints and coatings for industrial products such as vehicles, on the other hand, are heavily dependent on the general economic development. This is the fourth time that Ceresana has published a stud...

Sciencedaily | August 31, 2020

Ethylene is the most important chemical precursor for ethanol and polyethylene and is mainly produced by steam cracking. Although the ethylene fraction is usually very pure (more than 99%), remaining traces of acetylene contaminants can destroy the catalysts used in downstream processes. As ethylene and acetylene are very similar and only differ in the amount of hydrogen atoms -- ethylene has four hydrogen atoms bound to two carbon atoms, acetylene has two -- the separation of both gases is elab...

PR Newswire | January 14, 2020

The new LDPE unit had not yet achieved beneficial operation (BO) as planned for in December 2019. The unit was in the final stages of commissioning and startup when the incident occurred. The unit has been shut down and an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the incident, the extent of the damage and resulting impact on the LDPE unit's BO schedule. All other Lake Charles units and previously commissioned LCCP units, namely the ethane cracker, ethylene glycol/ethylene oxide an...