Petrochemicals giant ExxonMobil has selected the international firm Kent to do the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for plastics recycling projects it is exploring in the US, Canada, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Kent, an integrated energy services company, noted that it had already provided engineering, procurement and construction management services to ExxonMobil for the oil concern's first advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, which began commercial operations late last year. The Dubai-based engineering company announced the contract award on 28 June.
In North America, ExxonMobil is considering building chemical recycling plants for difficult-to-recycle plastics in the towns of Baytown and Beaumont, Texas, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Sarnia, Canada.
Exxon Mobil also has plans to build recycling plants at two sites in Europe in this stage of its chemical recycling expansion. Read more .......
