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Birla Carbon Spain Makes €5 Million Investment For Production Increase
Birla Carbon Spain announced a €5 million investment towards sustainability and energy efficiency projects to increase its production from 80,000 to 95,000 tons per year. The plant also inaugurated a new administrative office and laboratory comp…09.21.18
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AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals Completes Polinox Acquisition
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals completed its acquisition of Brazil's Polinox, South America's leading producer of ketone peroxides, an essential ingredient in the manufacture of polymers. AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals acquires Polinox&#…09.21.18
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MPM Holdings Inc. Agrees to Acquisition by Investor Group
Consists of SJL Partners, KCC Corporation and Wonik QnC Corporation; transaction valued at approximately $3.1 billion.09.18.18
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Evonik Expands Hydrophobic Fumed Silica Capacities
Evonik Industries is expanding its capacities for refinement of fumed silica in Rheinfelden (Germany). The group will invest an amount in the low double-digit million euro range to expand its Rheinfelden facility, which further processes hydrophilic…09.14.18
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Croda Continues Investment in Latin America
Croda do Brasil (part of Croda International Plc) is celebrating the opening of its new Innovation and Customer Experience Centre and Specialty Polymer Plant at its manufacturing site in Campinas (São Paulo State), Brazil. Since 2013, Croda…09.13.18
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EMD Performance Materials Corp. Opens Surface Solutions Laboratories in Philadelphia
EMD Performance Materials Corp. officially opened its new Surface Solutions laboratories in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. The company’s global applications network produces prototypes and characterizes surfaces containing effect pigm…09.11.18
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Ergon Purchases Resinall
Ergon, Inc., announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Ergon Chemicals, LLC, completed the purchase of Resinall Corp, Resinall Mississippi Inc., Industrial Transport Inc. and Resinall QALICB, LLC. Resinall is a manufacturer of thermoplastic resins…09.10.18
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Wacker Polymers Binders Based on Renewable Resources Certified
Wacker chemical company is the world’s first manufacturer capable of using renewable resources to produce commercial quantities not only of dispersions based on vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE), but also of further products based on vinyl…09.10.18
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SABIC Completes Purchase of 24.99% Stake in Clariant
SABIC received all regulatory approvals.09.10.18
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GMI: Industrial Liquid Coatings Market Size worth More Than $70 Billion by 2025
The Industrial Liquid Coatings Market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $45 billion to more than $70 billion by 2025; as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights, Inc. Growth in the global oil & gas sector c…09.10.18
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Photanol Builds Demonstration Plant to Make Chemicals from CO2, Sunlight
At AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals' Delfzijl site.09.07.18
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Oxiteno Commences Operations at Pasadena, Texas Alkoxylation Plant
Oxiteno announced the commencement of beneficial operations at its new 170,000 metric tons/year manufacturing plant in Pasadena, Texas. The new unit includes alkoxylation technology to ensure safety and environmental performance. Oxiteno inv…09.06.18
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BASF Increases Hexanediol Capacity at Ludwigshafen Site
BASF intends to increase the production capacity of 1,6-Hexanediol (HDO) at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site by more than 50 percent. After the start-up in 2021, BASF’s global annual nameplate capacity of HDO will be more than 70,000 metric tons p…09.04.18
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LyondellBasell, Covestro Kick Off Investment Project in Maasvlakte-Rotterdam
LyondellBasell and Covestro kicked off a large investment project today at their site in Maasvlakte-Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Circular Steam Project incorporates an innovative technology into the existing production plant to convert its water-b…09.04.18
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Evonik Sells Galena, Kansas Site
Evonik is taking the next step in systematically focusing on specialty chemicals with the divestment of its U.S. Jayhawk site in Galena, Kansas. The site produces precursors for agrochemicals, which are not included in the growth businesses defined b…08.31.18
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LyondellBasell Begins Construction of World's Largest PO/TBA Plant
LyondellBasell officially broke ground on what will be the largest propylene oxide and tertiary butyl alcohol plant ever built. The Houston area project is estimated to cost $2.4 billion, representing the single-largest c…08.28.18
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RadTech Announces Dates for RadTech 2020 UV+EB Technology Expo & Conference
Will take place March 9-11, 2020 at Disney Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL.08.24.18
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European Commission Issues Final Approval of Tronox's Proposed Cristal Acquisition
Tronox Limited said it received final approval from the European Commission to close its proposed acquisition of the titanium dioxide business of The National Titanium Dioxide Company Limited, a privately held global chemical and…08.23.18
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Evonik, Wynca Form JV to Produce Fumed Silica
New fumed silica production facility planned in Zhenjiang, China.08.22.18
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BASF PETRONAS Chemicals Expands Production Capacity for Acrylic Acid, Butyl Acrylate
Expansion planned for in Kuantan, Malaysia site.08.17.18
