The production facility of Vertellus Specialties in Nantong, Jiangsu, China with a 10,000 t of 3-cyanopyridine manufacturing system has currently started the commercial production. This manufacturing system is an essential part of Vertellus’Asian growth strategy and is a vital factor for increasing the production capacity in Nantong.
Arkema has submitted its proposal to the Central Works Council for the divesture of its Vinyl Products business, as part of its strategy to grow the specialty chemicals operations within its Performance Products and Industrial Chemicals businesses.
Air Products has announced that its on-site gas generator called PRISM VSA Oxygen Generation System has officially started supplying more than 200 t/day of oxygen to Gerdau Steel’s production facility located in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
Dow Chemical’s Performance Monomers business has reported that a plan of incremental extension has opened a further potential increase 15% of crude acrylic acid (CAA) capacity at its Texas-based Deer park facility.
Arkema will acquire the specialty alcoxylate business project from SEPPIC.
NanoH2O, a producer of economical and efficient reverse osmosis membranes for desalination of seawater, has declared that it has been presented the 2011 Aquatech Innovation Award for its thin-film nanocomposite QuantumFlux RO membrane under the category of ‘Water Supply’ at Aquatech Amsterdam Exhibition conducted from 1 to 4 November 2011 in Amsterdam.
US-based Eastman Chemical Company has been awarded the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChe) Industrial Research and Development Award for the year 2011 for developing and commercialising the copolyester, Eastman Tritan.
A research group led by ETH Zurich has now, for the first time, visualized the motion of electrons during a chemical reaction. The new findings in the experiment are of fundamental importance for photochemistry and could...
The first plants of the expanded BASF-YPC, a 50-50 joint venture (JV) between BASF and Sinopec, in Nanjing, China have started operation. The newly built non-ionic surfactants plant and butadiene extraction plant are now operational.
Arkema, a global chemical company and a specialist in impact modifiers for PA, PC, PET and PBT, has created Lotader 2200, a new impact modifier range that is suitable for applications requiring exceptional impact resistance at extremely low temperatures.
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