Pechiney, Gove Aluminium Finance and Hydro Aluminium, the joint venture partners in the Tomago Aluminium project (Australia) have agreed to increase the output of the plant.
Current production capacity of approximatel...
Nucor are looking to establish a commercial scale iron ore processing plant at Kwinana, Western Australia. Other joint venture partners in the project include Rio Tinto Group (60%), Mitsubishi Corp (10%) and Shougang Cor...
Alcan have just completed a 20% acquisition of the Aluminerie Alouette consortium.
Alouette is a first class aluminium smelter with facilities in Quebec, Canada. The plant has a capacity of 243,000 tons per year, with...
Australian based packaging company Amcor has reached an agreement to acquire Spanish flexible packaging company Tobepal Group.
Tobepal has three plants in Spain that generate sales of 74 million Euros and give Amcor a...
The commercial production of biodegradable plastic bags, sacks and film has drawn one step closer. A joint venture between Anwil, a Polish chemicals company and Environmental Polymers Group (EPG) will see Anwil manufactu...
As of June 1st, BASF’s Australian compounding plant will come under the ownership of Engineering Polymers. Engineering Polymers is a new company owned by four directors of Marplex, the distributor for BASF in Austr...
MG Rover will source engines from Ford for use in their supercar, which is due to start production some time next year. The production versions of the supercar are based on the concept coupe labeled X80, and will be powe...
BASF announced that it will build the largest production facility for the manufacture of polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF), a polymer fibre used in the textile industry. The plant will be built in the newly developed Shangha...
Bayer and Adidas have teamed up to use advanced materials to produce the latest revolution in soccer balls for use in this years World Cup.
The new ball, called the “Fevernova” uses a multi layer polyureth...
have implemented a restructuring strategy following a spate of acquisitions in the period 1997-1999 and difficult economic times of late.
Changes will see the closure of two coatings plants, one in Michigan (USA) and ...
Formosa Plastics Corp (USA) today completed the acquisition of the Borden Chemicals PVC facility in Illinois, USA.
The acquisition provides Formosa with a further 200 million pounds per year production capability in t...
Plastic Logic has successfully raised £6.3 million in first round funding. Investors include PolyTechnos Venture Partners, Amadeus Capital partners and the Dow Chemical Company. The company is holding the funding r...
Akzo Nobel have just acquired the global marine and aerospace coatings divisions of NOF Corporation of Japan. These consist of NOF Europe and US Paint, which generated sales of US$30 million in 2001.
The acquisition w...
UK based coatings and engineering group, Frederick Cooper have conditionally agreed to terms to sells it US subsidiary Cooper Coil Coating Inc, located in Florida. CCC is to be purchased by Cooper Coil Coatings LLC, a ne...
Hydro Aluminium, a division of Norsk Hydro today opened its aluminium recycling plant near Madrid in Spain. They have invested a total of 25 million Euros in the plant that sees Hydro Aluminium cement its position as Eur...
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