December 2009

ILLA celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first implementation of cumene-based Phenol process.

November 2009

In the November issue of Russian Journal of General Chemistry Dr. Zakoshansky published an article: “Phenol Process Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary: The Role of Chemical Principles in Technological Breakthroughs”

January 2009

Dr. Zakoshansky published his book: Phenol and Acetone: An Analysis of the Process Technologies, and of the Kinetics and the Mechanisms of Corresponding Major Reactions, St. Petersburg: Chemizdat, 2009. (available by direct order at ILLA International or through www.amazon.com)

December 2008

New book on Phenol by Dr. V. M. Zakoshansky “Phenol and Acetone. An Analysis of Process Technologies and of the Kinetics and the Mechanisms of Corresponding Major Reactions” is scheduled to issue in January 2009

March-April 2007

Start-up of ILLAs FAN2000 Process at the BOREALIS expanded 185 MTA Phenol Plant is scheduled May 25, 2007.

February 2007

ILLA International stopped cooperation with ABB Lummus Global Inc. as a co-licensor.

January 2007

ILLA International participated in the 2nd Aromatics & Derivatives MidEast / S.Asia Markets conference organized by Centre for Management Technology held on January 30-31, 2007 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

December 2006

ILLA International issued complete Basic Engineering Packages for two jobs, Reanimation of the existing phenol plant and Revamping of all the process sections of this plant, under the SAMARAORGSINTEZ phenol plant revamp expansion project. Currently, the detail engineering phase is underway.

November 2006

The WEPP pilot unit started running at a phenol/acetone production plant. The run is scheduled for at least one year.

June, 2006

ILLA International participated in the 4th ICIS World Phenol/Acetone Conference held on
6-7th June 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic.

April, 2006

ILLA is successfully proceeding with the revision of the BOREALIS Polymers Oy detailed engineering project in the construction of the CHP cleavage unit at its Porvoo Phenol Plant.

June, 2005

ILLA International was awarded a contract in the phenol plant revamp expansion project of SAMARAORGSINTEZ (Novokuibyshevsk, Russia) ("Hydrocarbon Processing" Oct.,2005, p.13).

February, 2005

ILLA International participated in the 2-nd Asia Phenol/Acetone&Derivatives Markets conference organized by Centre for Management Technology to be held on 24-25th February 2005 in Shaghai, China.

August, 2004

ILLA has finished the lab pilot tests of a pioneer process for the production of phenol and acetone virtually free of wastes, so called Waste-less Process of Phenol Production (WEPP).

May, 2004

A new 200 000 t/year phenol train was started up at FORMOSA CHEMICALS AND FIBER CORPORATION, Taiwan.

April, 2004

The Third International Aromatics Producers Conference was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

February, 2004

ILLA International participated in Asia Phenol/Acetone & Derivatives Markets conference
organized by Centre for Management Technology held in Bangkok, Thailand.

April, 2003

March 30 - April 3, 2003 the Second International Aromatics Producers Conference was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

December, 2002

ILLA International, LLC. received a letter from Mr.Peter Bickert, President of INEOS Phenol, USA, with a detailed description of the causes of the accident at INEOS Phenol plant (Mobile, Alabama, USA).

November, 2002

BOREALIS Polymers Oy (Finland) is going to completely revamp its Kellogg two-step process of technical CHP cleavage in boiling acetone medium at its Porvoo Phenol Plant using ILLA two-step process of homogeneous CHP cleavage, FAN-2000^TM.