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GE awards INEOS for water technology at Scottish petchem plant

TREVOSE, PA. — GE Water & Process Technologies has honored INEOS with its prestigious Ecomagination Leadership and Return on Environment (ROE) awards to recognize the petrochemical manufacturer for its noteworthy reductions in water usage and associated costs savings on its KG ethylene plant at its petrochemical complex in Grangemouth, Scotland.

China's plastic demand to rise as foreign garbage ban to curb recycled supply

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — China's already soaring plastic demand may rise even further as the government plans to ban waste-plastic imports by the end of this year, which will curb domestic plastic recycling.

PTTGC announces $4 B 5-yr investment plan for eastern Thailand

BANGKOK (Reuters) — PTT Global Chemical Pcl, Thailand’s largest petrochemical producer, on Tuesday announced a $4 B investment plan over the next 5 yr in an industrial development on the eastern seaboard.

CB&I announces technology award for petchem plant in China

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — CB&I announced it has been awarded a contract by Xuzhou HaiDing Chemical Technology Co. Ltd. for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation unit to be built in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, China.

EPA says no volatile chemicals found in water near Arkema plant in Texas

(Reuters) — Water samples collected after an Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas caught fire following a power outage due to Tropical Storm Harvey contained no volatile chemicals, the US Environmental Protection Agency said Friday.

Harvey may pinch some Gulf Coast refining, chemical projects

NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) — Oil and petrochemical plants along the US Gulf Coast intend to go ahead with plans for near record spending on expansions next year, despite Hurricane Harvey driving up labor costs and slowing work, experts said.

Police and EMTs sue Arkema over chemical plant fire after Harvey

HOUSTON (Reuters) — Police and emergency workers filed suit on Thursday against French chemicals company Arkema SA, claiming they were injured after it failed to take adequate steps to avoid a fire at its Crosby, Texas, plant after Hurricane Harvey.

Amec Foster Wheeler awarded EPC contract for methanol plant

LONDON — Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a $604 MM engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) fixed price contract for part of a $1.85 B methanol plant being developed by Yuhuang Chemical Inc (YCI), a US-based subsidiary of China's Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company Co. Ltd.

TOYO awarded petrochemical project in Indonesia

Toyo Engineering Group (TOYO) has been awarded a construction project from PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP), Indonesia's largest petrochemical company.

Air Liquide, Mitsubishi Chemical sign technology agreement

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a cooperation agreement with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation to license MCC’s Butene-to-crude-Butadiene technology used in the petrochemical industry.