Keyword: capacity expansion
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28.05.2015
- Dutch chemical producer AkzoNobel has announced it will spend more than €30 million on a new Performance Coatings plant in Thailand to support regional growth of the business. The...
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27.05.2015
- Japanese catalyst and superabsorbent polymer producer Nippon Shokubai has earmarked €350 million for the expansion of its production facilities for its super absorbers and...
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22.05.2015
- The expanded oxo capacity at Swedish chemical producer Perstorp's Stenungsund plant is now operating at full run, the company said. The plant, touted as the single largest...
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21.05.2015
- Advanced Refining Technologies (ART), the catalyst joint venture of chemical producers W.R. Grace and Chevron Products Company, has announced plans to spend around $135 million on...
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11.05.2015
- Spanish petrochemicals producer Repsol has licensed the Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) process to produce metallocene-based LDPE resin at its complex in Tarragona. The plant...
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04.05.2015
- Dow Chemical has started up a new 200,000 t/y polyether polyols plant at Map Ta Phut, Thailand. The facility using DMC catalyst technology will join a propylene glycol plant opened...
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30.04.2015
- BASF has begun trial operations at its 400,000 t/y mononitrobenzene plant at Chongqing, in western China. The new facility will feed the group's integrated MDI complex at the same...
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29.04.2015
- US plastics compounder and distributor A. Schulman has added a new PET compounding unit at its Bornem masterbatch plant in Belgium. While not disclosing either investment cost or...
