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Wacker Widens US Capacity for Dispersions

10.03.2015 - Germany's Wacker Chemie is expanding its vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions production facilities by 85,000 t/y at its Calvert City, Kentucky site in the US. The...

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BASF Expanding Specialty Amines Output at Ludwigshafen

05.03.2015 - BASF said it is investing a double-digit million euro to "significantly expand" its capacity for about 20 specialty amines at the Ludwigshafen headquarters site. The products are...

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Axalta Building New Waterborne Coatings Plant in China

05.03.2015 - Axalta Coating Systems is building a new plant for waterborne coatings at Shanghai to supply China's growing automobile market. The company said construction of the plant, one of...

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Wacker Builds New Specialty Monomers Plant in Burghausen

05.03.2015 - Germany's Wacker Chemie is building a new 3,800 t/y plant for specialty monomers at its Burghausen site. The new €8 million unit will produce vinyl neodecanoate and vinyl laurate...

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Yara and BASF Building Ammonia Plant in Texas

23.02.2015 - Norwegian fertilizer producer Yara International and Germany's BASF plan to build a world scale ammonia plant at BASF's site in Freeport, Texas, using hydrogen as raw material. The...

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Air Liquide to Build $170 Million Gases Unit for Yuhuang

16.02.2015 - Air Liquide plans to invest around $170 million in a plant to supply oxygen for Chinese petrochemical giant Yuhuang Chemical's planned methanol manufacturing complex in St. James...

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Shell Building $11 Billion Petchems Complex in Iraq

12.02.2015 - Shell has signed a deal with Iraq, possibly worth $11 billion, to build a petrochemicals complex in the southern oil hub of Basra, the news agency Reuters has reported. The complex...

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BASF to Lift Chromate Pigment Capacities

09.02.2015 - BASF plans to "significantly increase" production capacities for bismuth vanadate pigments at Besigheim, Germany, near Stuttgart, from 2017. The German chemical giant markets the...