Covestro has successfully started up a new world-scale facility for the production of chlorine in Tarragona, Spain. It is the …
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Iqoxe resumes its activity at the ethylene oxyde plant
Four months after the explosion at Iqoxe’s Ethylene Oxide plant in Tarragona, the Government has given authorization to reopen the …
ETHYLENE OXYDE ARRIVES BY ROAD FROM MARSEILLE TO TARRAGONA
Iqoxe’s plant explosion, on January 14, left the Tarragona chemical industry without the supply of ethylene oxide. To solve this, …
CEPSA STARTS UP METAXYLENE AT SAN ROQUE
Cepsa’s Gibraltar San Roque refinery has started up its new Sorbex-2 metaxylene plant, one of the latest industrial advances made …
FERTIBERIA OPENS THE SULPHURIC ACID TANK IN AVILÉS PORT
Fertiberia Trasona counts already with the 12,000 tons sulfuric acid storage tank which has built at Valliniello pier in Avilés …
France’s Total to shut Barcelona’s polystyrene plant
French oil and petrochemicals group Total S.A. is reducing its production of polystyrene with the planned shutdown of a smaller …
Indukern sells its Industrial Chemical division to the German Stockmeier Group
Indukern, a company owned by the Indukern Group, has signed a sales agreement with the Stockmeier Group, in which the …
Ercros has started up the second expansion of its chlorine plant at Tarragona
Ercros has started a second expansion capacity of 26,000 t/year at the chlorine and caustic soda production plant of its …
Covestro invests 5.5 million at its plant in Barcelona
Covestro’s CEO, Markus Steilemann and the technological head of the company, Klaus Schäfer, announced a EUR 5.5 million investment to …
Cepsa starts up the second metaxylene production unit in San Roque
Gibraltar-San Roque Refinery started its new metaxylene production unit called Sorbex-2, on a EUR 70 million investment. The plant will …