Supplier News

1. Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals, And Mitsubishi Chemical Establish A Limited Liability Partnership For Ethylene Manufacturing Facilities In Western Japan 9/1/2025

   Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals, and Mitsubishi Chemical have established a limited liability partnership (LLP) to achieve carbon neutrality and production capacity optimization targeting 2030 with respect to the two ethylene manufacturing facilities in total owned by the three companies in western Japan, and will accelerate relevant studies.

2. Polymers From Thin Air: Direct Catalytic Coupling Of Isoprene And CO_₂ For Renewable Materials 8/29/2025

   Isoprene is one of the most abundant biogenic hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, released by forests at hundreds of teragrams per year and playing a key role in atmospheric chemistry.

3. Illuminated Extractors Unveils Breakthrough Hydrocarbon Extraction Technology With Expanding Industrial Applications 8/29/2025

   Illuminated Extractors, Ltd. is proud to announce the issuance of U.S. Patent US12135149 for its revolutionary heating and refrigeration system, a game-changing advancement in hydrocarbon extraction and industrial thermal management.

4. ABB And Citroniq Target A World First With 100% Bio-Based Polypropylene Facility 8/28/2025

   ABB has entered a supply agreement with Citroniq to provide advanced automation, electrification and digitalization solutions for a 100 percent biogenic polypropylene facility in Nebraska, US – aiming to be the world’s first full commercial-scale facility of its kind.

5. Technip Energies Awarded FEED Contracts For INPEX Abadi LNG Project In Indonesia 8/27/2025

   Technip Energies (PARIS:TE), in consortium with JGC, has been awarded two significant Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contracts for INPEX Abadi LNG project, a landmark development for Indonesia’s energy landscape located in the Masela Block.

6. Wood To Provide Project Management Consultancy Services On Turkey's Largest Polypropylene Plant 8/21/2025

   Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering, is providing project management consultancy (PMC) services to develop Turkey’s largest polypropylene plant and associated terminal facility as part of the Ceyhan project.

7. Enhancing Copper's Role In CO₂ Conversion To Valuable Fuels 8/20/2025

   Scientists from the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute have studied how applying pulsed electric potential treatments to copper single crystal surfaces as model catalysts can improve their ability to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into fuels like ethylene and ethanol.

8. Sumitomo Chemical Achieves Scale-Up Of Its Proprietary Process For Producing Propylene Directly From Ethanol 8/20/2025

   Sumitomo Chemical has constructed and begun operation of a pilot facility at the Sodegaura site of its Chiba Works for its new proprietary process to produce propylene directly from ethanol.

9. Vioneo Selects Lummus As Its Polypropylene Partner For World's First Industrial Scale Fossil-Free Plastics From Green-Methanol Facility 8/19/2025

   Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, announced Vioneo has selected its Novolen® polypropylene (PP) technology for a new grassroots plant in Antwerp, Belgium.

10. Johnson Matthey's Technology Enables Successful Start-Up Of The World's Largest Single Train Methanol Plant 8/15/2025

    Johnson Matthey (JM) is pleased to announce that the three methanol production trains of Inner Mongolia Baofeng Coal-based New Materials Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group, were successfully commissioned in November 2024, February 2025, and March 2025, respectively.