08.07.2019
- Asahi Kasei and GLM, an electric vehicle manufacturer, have completed a jointly developed concept car called AKXY showcasing a wide array of automotive-related materials and...
08.07.2019
- The world plastics production, according to the PlasticsEurope Market Research Group (PEMRG)/Conversio Market & Strategy, almost reached 350 million tons in 2017. China is the...
02.04.2018
- Following the founding of Asahi Kasei Europe (AKEU), based in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the opening of a European R&D center in Dormagen, Germany, the Japanese chemical company has...
02.03.2018
- Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC) has successfully built its first chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in Germany. Until now, clients and jobsites of the Saxon plant manufacturer have...
03.10.2017
- Japan’s Asahi Kasei has developed a new and safer route to produce diphenyl carbonate (DPC), using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a feedstock instead of phosgene, which is highly toxic...
02.10.2017
- Japan’s Asahi Kasei and China’s Bluestar, a ChemChina subsidiary, have agreed to study the economics of building production facilities for producing a modified polyphenylene ether...
10.07.2017
- In 1975, Asahi Kasei began the first commercial chlor-alkali production using the membrane electrolysis process. This industrial process for the electrolysis of sodium chloride...
