06.10.2012
- BASF and Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, are establishing a joint venture for the production and sale of biobased succinic acid. The company will be named Succinity and will be...
01.10.2012
- Evonik Industries plans to increase the production capacity for 1-butene at its Marl site by 75,000 metric tons per year to a total capacity of 310,000 metric tons. Start-up is...
30.09.2012
- Global diaper output is likely to take a hit from an increase in the price of acrylic acid after a chemical tank explosion at Nippon Shokubai's Himeji plant in Japan, a main...
28.09.2012
- Dr. Matthias L. Wolfgruber, Chairman of the Management Board of Altana, and Frank Bannert, district administrator of the Saalekreis region, visited BYK Kometra in Schkopau today...
28.09.2012
- Songwon Industrial Group is announcing the expansion of DOTO (Di-n-Octyltin Oxide) production capacity by 60% at its Ulsan (Korea) manufacturing facility with the project...
24.09.2012
- Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corporation, announces it is increasing capacity at its precipitated silica plant in Etowah, Tennessee (U.S.). The expansion...
19.09.2012
- Clariant, a producer of fabric repellency treatments, has increased its capacity to produce next-generation fluorochemicals at its plant in Gendorf, Germany. With an investment of...
18.09.2012
- Solvay announced today a capacity increase of 70% at its Panoli plant, India, for the production of its high performance polymers KetaSpire polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and AvaSpire...