Samsung Engineering Wins $1.07B Methanol Plant Contract in Malaysia

Samsung Engineering has received a letter of intent (LOI) for a US$1.07 billion contract from Sarawak Petchem Sdn Bhd to build a methanol plant in Sarawak, Malaysia. Samsung Engineering will build a 5000 tonne per day methanol production facility in Bintulu, Sarawak, eastern Malaysia. Samsung Engineering won the contract for the FEED from Sarawak Petchem … Read more

Fine Organic Industries Starts Operations at New Facility in India

Fine Organic Industries informed that new manufacturing facility situated at Additional MIDC Patalganga, Maharashtra has started its operations from 25 November 2020. Fine Organic Industries earlier announced expansion of its production capacity by 10,000 tonnes per annum each at its Patalganga, Maharashtra and Leipzig, Germany manufacturing units taking the overall capacity to 121,300 tonnes per … Read more

LyondellBasell Buys $2-billion Stake in Sasol’s Lake Charles Base Chemicals Unit

Update: Sasol said on Wednesday its Lake Charles base chemicals unit joint venture (JV) with LyondellBasell Industries had been established, following closure of the deal on December 1. The Lake Charles base chemicals unit includes a 1.5-million-ton ethane cracker, 900,000-ton low and linear-low density polyethylene plants and associated infrastructure. According to the agreement signed in … Read more

Meghmani Organics Commences Production at New Agrochem Plants

India’s Meghmani Organics Ltd has commenced commercial production at its two agrochemical plants on 25 November 2020. The company has begun commercial production at Herbicide 2,4-D Acid (2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) plant at GIDC, Dahej in Bharuch district of Gujarat. The cost of setting up the Herbicide 2,4-D Acid with an annual capacity of 10,800 MTs is … Read more