Röhm’s Acrylic Products business unit and SABIC’s Functional Forms business unit are going to be merged to form Polyvantis, a new global player in the acrylics and...
German engineering plastics producer Covestro is buiilding its first dedicated line for mechanical recycling (MCR) of polycarbonates at its integrated site in Shanghai...
09.04.2015
- Roquette, the world's No. 5 starch producer, announced the launch of a new 20,000 tons/year industrial unit for the production of isosorbide at its site in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais...
01.07.2014
- Global overcapacity and slack demand are leading Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) to consolidate its polycarbonate (PC) sheet business. In the latest move, the company has announced...
16.01.2014
- Econic Technologies, a developer of new catalyst technology for manufacturing polymers from waste carbon dioxide, is pleased to announce that it has completed a £5.1m (approx. €6...
10.05.2013
- Bayer suggested there was room to lift prices at its high-tech plastics and chemicals business this year to counter soaring raw material costs that squeezed first quarter margins...
10.01.2013
- Bayer MaterialScience, a subgroup of the Bayer Group and world leading materials provider, has officially opened its first Polymer Development & Technology Center in South Korea...
29.02.2012
- German chemicals and drugs group Bayer posted a 9% drop in fourth-quarter profit as price rises failed to offset soaring oil-derived raw materials costs at its plastics division...
