Chemical and innovative plastics solution providers, Borealis and Borouge will display new and value-added products at the Plast Eurasia event in Istanbul, Turkey.
BASF announced that it will invest over €500 million for the construction of a world-scale acrylic acid complex in Camaçari, Brazil. It is the company’s largest investment in South America.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, headquartered in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, has acquired the Patriot Special Metals’ assets in North Jackson, Ohio.
Foamlinx is now offering foam cutting services along with its subsidiary, WeCutFoam. The company uses its customized line cutting equipment to provide these services.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
22 Aug 2011
The Bayou Companies, a subsidiary of Insituform Technologies, has received orders to offer corrosion coating for the Walker Ridge Gathering System and Big Foot pipeline projects.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
22 Aug 2011
According to a market research report titled, ‘China PVC Market Report 2011,’available from Research and Markets, China's PVC output would achieve 12.08 Mt in fiscal year 2011.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
22 Aug 2011
On May 13 ThyssenKrupp AG decided on an integrated strategic development program to move the Group forward competitively and sustainably. This program includes optimization of the portfolio.
The Group will be divesti...
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:USAP) announced today that it has completed its purchase of the assets of Patriot Special Metals, a substantially completed greenfield facility located in North Jack...
Novamont, a leader in bioplastics production, has partnered with Genomatica, a technology leader for the chemical industry, to create a joint venture that will operate the first industrial plant for butanediol (BDO) production from renewable feedstocks.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
Evonik Industries, one of the world’s leading specialty chemicals companies, announced that it has started construction of a new hexachlorodisilane (HCDS) production plant in Rheinfelden, Germany.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
EMSL Analytical, a leading materials testing laboratory with more than 39 locations across the U.S. and Canada, has expanded its Charlotte, North Carolina laboratory space by shifting to a new location that lies between Interstate 485 and Interstate 77.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
American Manganese, a diversified specialty metal company, announced that the testing work has begun at a new pilot plant constructed by Kemetco Research to confirm and expand the conceptual process.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products has signed a distribution agreement with Dichem Chemicals and IMCD Group for its Zemea propanediol. Dichem Chemicals will be responsible for Zemea distribution in Greece and IMCD Group has been selected as a distributor for Italy.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
Maine Plastics has been hired as the official recycler for NPE2012, an international plastics exhibition to be conducted from 1 to 5 April 2012, by the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), a plastic industry trade association.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
China Ceramics has declared that the capacity expansion is complete at its Hengda facility, which can now manufacture 42 million sq m of ceramic tiles annually, up from 28 million sq m in the fiscal year 2010 and an increase from 32 million sq m in the second quarter of 2011.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011