ExxonMobil’s Fife Ethylene Plant in Scotland, a key part of the country’s manufacturing sector since the 1980s, will close in early 2026. More than 400 jobs will be lost, making it the largest ...

“We have been told by the company that over 57% of the direct work force and between 45 and 50% of the contractors actually ...

The massive ethylene cracker facility planned for San Patricio County is expected to emit 2.98 million tons of Greenhouse gas each year. That's according to an air permit application recently filed to ...

A new approach to the design of ethylene plants has resulted in the elimination of up to 23% of the equipment in an ethylene plant, a 15% reduction of investment, a 12% reduction in energy and ...

Turning methane into ethylene with sunlight sounds like alchemy, but it is rapidly moving into the realm of practical ...

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 ...

ExxonMobil Corp. plans to expand its Baytown, Tex., refining and petrochemical complex with a 1.5-million-tpy ethane cracker as well as adding two 650,000-tpy polyethylene lines at its plastics plant ...

Ethylene decreases longitudinal growth in intact oat and pea seedlings. It does not, however, influence production or transport of auxin. In the pea seedlings it is possible that it significantly ...

BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW) today announced full commercial operation of the grassroots ethylene plant for Eastern Petrochemical Company (SHARQ) in Al-Jubail, ...

Nara, Japan - Mutants that reveal the secrets of how plants attack? No, it's not a scene from a science fiction movie, but you could be forgiven for thinking that. Instead, it's a scene from real life ...