Indorama’s Lake Charles steam cracker startup pushed to 2020
Although Indorama's Lake Charles steam cracker was mechanically complete in May, the plant likely won't fully start up until January 2020.
In its latest quarterly...
28 students complete latest BASF TECH Academy
Twenty-eight area high school students completed BASF’s TECH Academy—a week-long educational and workforce development program hosted at River Parishes Community College in Gonzales.
The program...
Sasol begins startup of Lake Charles cracker
Sasol is initiating the startup of its new 1.5 million tons-per-year cracker in Lake Charles. However, the company's new associated 420,000 million tons per...
New Methanex project makes Geismar one of the largest methanol complexes in the world
Methanex is spending up to $1.4 billion to construct a third methanol facility in Geismar.
The project will create 62 new direct jobs with average...
With growing polyethylene capacity, more resin export logjams expected
Logjams that hindered moving resin out of U.S. ports from late 2018 through April have lightened up, but market participants expect the same problems...
Veolia plans $40 million expansion
Veolia North America is investing $40 million to expand its regeneration plant in Darrow.
Known as the Burnside facility, the Veolia plant converts spent sulfuric...
Hearing scheduled tonight on Formosa chemical complex
Louisiana will hold a public hearing tonight on whether to approve 15 air emissions permits for Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics.
The Louisiana Department of Environmental...
Sasol begins production of ethylene oxide
An ethylene oxide production facility is now online at Sasol's Lake Charles Chemical Project.
The announcement comes a month after the company's ethylene glycol at...
Intertek Caleb Brett adds laboratory in St. James for inspections, testing
Intertek Caleb Brett, which provides qualitative and quantitative analytical assessment services to the oil and gas, chemical and other commodities markets, is expanding its...
DEQ: LaPlace chemical plant fails to achieve emissions reduction goal
A LaPlace chemical plant has failed to meet a state order requiring it to curb its release of potentially cancer-causing emissions, The Times-Picayune reports.
The...
