We know plastic waste is a massive environmental issue. From overflowing landfills, incinerators polluting the air, to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch polluting the ocean, plastic has become a ...

Exposing seedlings to ethylene in darkness increases size and vigor, in a finding with implications for agriculture. Farmers have worked to increase crop yields for millennia, and the quest remains ...

The Brazilian bio-based ethylene facility is now operating at a capacity of 260 thousand tons per year. The celebrated expansion of the world’s first, industrial scale, bio-polyethylene comes thirteen ...

More than 400 jobs at the plant have been lost, including 180 ExxonMobil employees, 200 contractors, and 50 other staff. In an official statement announcing the closure, a spokesman for ExxonMobil ...

An ethylene plant in Saudi Arabia that the Shaw Group helped develop is now fully operational. Shaw provided engineering, procurement and construction management services for the Eastern Petrochemical ...

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board examined the 2023 incident that led to the release of cancer-causing ...

The general contractor on Shintech’s $1.4 billion ethylene plant project in Plaquemine canceled two contracts with CB&I, citing hundreds of millions in cost overruns, according to financial and ...

SINGAPORE, Feb 22 (Reuters) - China's Sinopec Corp 0386.HK600028.SS said on Wednesday it has completed trial runs at a one million tonnes-per-year ethylene plant in the southern Chinese province of ...

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., a joint venture equally owned by San Ramon's Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips, will move forward with plans to build one of the first new ethylene production facilities ...

Turning methane into ethylene with sunlight sounds like alchemy, but it is rapidly moving into the realm of practical chemistry. A new generation of solar-driven catalysts promises to convert a potent ...

Today’s enormous petrochemical industry is built on a technology that began modestly in the hills of West Virginia. In 1920, the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation was formed as a subsidiary of ...