Japan has 12 ethylene plants that crack naphtha, a crude oil byproduct, into basic chemicals such as ethylene and propylene, which are used to make intermediates like resins for a wide range of end ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 EPA has exempted dozens of medical sterilizing facilities from complying with Biden-era rules for ethylene oxide, a ...

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, April 11 (Reuters) - Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Co. restarted on Sunday a plant that produces ethylene glycol and oxide ethylene after scheduled maintenance and some technical ...

Over the past two years, Madeline Beal has heard frustration and even bewilderment during public meetings about ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas that is used to sterilize half of the medical ...