C&EN

The party is over for North American petrochemical makers

In the 2010s, petrochemical producers piled into North America with a dozen major projects to take advantage of the new abundance of cheap gas. They added about 14 million metric tons (t) per year of ...
Oil

Dow to shutter European ethylene cracker, other assets

The Dow Chemical Co. plans to permanently cease operations at petrochemical and specialty chemical production sites in Germany and the UK as part of a strategy to maintain competitiveness of its ...
WLNS.com

Technip Energies and LanzaTech Awarded Funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for Commercializing Breakthrough CO2 to Ethylene Technology

CHICAGO, Dec. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Technip Energies (PARIS:TE) and LanzaTech Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNZA) (“LanzaTech”) announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy ...

Valmet to deliver advanced process analytical solutions to Dow's Path2Zero project, supporting net-zero emissions goals for ethylene cracking

Valmet has received orders from Dow – a global materials science leader – to supply turnkey process analytical solutions for its Path2Zero project at its Fort Saskatchewan site in Alberta, Canada. The ...
C&EN

Deluge of petrochemicals from China swamps other Asian countries

An aerial view shows a petrochemical complex next to a body of water. The ethylene plant at this site in Mizushima, Japan, will close under a restructuring plan announced by three companies. Credit: ...
ChemNet News

Asahi Kasei and two other Japanese firms integrate ethylene production capacity in western Japan, investing 21.2 billion yen to advance decarbonization transformation.

On January 27, Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals, and Mitsubishi Chemical jointly announced that they will collaborate to promote the decarbonization of two ethylene plants in western Japan and optimize ...