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BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2019, 97 (20), p 13May 20, 2019Cite this:C&EN 97, 20, 13AbstractLotte and Westlake Chemical have completed their $3.1 billion ethylene complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The complex includes a 1 million-metric-ton-per-year ethylene cracker and a $1.1 billion ethylene glycol plant that Lotte, a South Korean firm, constructed. Perstorp plans to build a 12,000-metric-ton-per-year plant for granular sodium formate—a deicing material for runways—in Perstorp, Sweden, to open before winter. The material has a lower carbon footprint and less potential to contaminate water than other deicers, Perstorp claims. Archroma has opened a technology and marketing competence center for automotive and synthetic dyes in Korschenbroich, Germany. The new facility joins Archroma centers for special dyes in Barcelona, Spain, and for textile finishing in Reinach, Switzerland. BASF will market water-soluble casein films from the French firm Lactips to the home care and industrial cleaning markets. The partners see an opportunity to replace polyvinyl alcohol detergent wrappers with films made from the milk by-product. HenkelView: PDF | Full Text HTML
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