Keyword: capacity expansion
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17.09.2015
- Citing increased demand in Asia, Shell has started up a new 140,000 t/y high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) purification plant and a new 140,000 t/y ethoxylates unit at its site on...
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16.09.2015
- In Thailand, Solvay has inaugurated what it says is Southeast Asia's largest sodium bicarbonate production facility. The €20 million plant built at the Belgian chemical group’s...
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14.09.2015
- As a first step toward doubling its manufacturing and production capacity for biologics in the US, AstraZeneca has acquired a high-tech biologics bulk manufacturing facility in...
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09.09.2015
- Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical is studying plans for a two-phase $9.4-billion petrochemical complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana, on the US Gulf Coast, which would include at...
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03.09.2015
- AkzoNobel plans to spend more than €1.3 million on a pilot plant for coatings resins to be built at its Performance Coatings site in Felling, UK, and scheduled to go on stream in...
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02.09.2015
- Chemical producer Evonik has started up new production plants for C4-based products at its Marl Chemical Park in Germany, using new technology that leverages flexible feedstock...
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28.08.2015
- Swiss specialty chemicals company Sika is bringing on stream new plants in Russia for concrete admixtures to meet high demand and further increase its market share. In Volgograd...
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28.08.2015
- BASF has started its first production of MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) at its new 400,000 t/y plant in Chongqing, China. Production will be ramped up gradually in line with...
