OQ

Röhm and OQ Chemicals signed an MoU to build a 250,000 tons/year methyl methacrylate plant on the U.S. Gulf Coast, using Röhm's LiMA technology. The plant is expected to start up in 2023 and create about 70 jobs.

OQ's Liwa Plastics Industrial Complex in Sohar, Oman, started maiden production of polyethylene. At full capacity, the unit will add 880,000 tons per year of polyethylene and 300,000 tons per year of polypropylene.

OQ (formerly Oman Oil and Orpic Group) successfully initiated operations of the polyethylene unit at its Liwa Plastics Industrial Complex in Sohar, producing the first LLDPE sample in Oman.

OQ Chemicals (formerly Oxea) announced plans to add 30% to its total production capacity for carboxylic acids with a sixth world-scale production plant, and additional capacity for TCD Alcohol, both expected in 2021.