BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further strengthen their cooperation by jointly exploring the possibility of building a world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, Maoming, China.
Arkema has brought on stream, several weeks ahead of schedule, the 50% increase in its fluorinated polymer production capacity at its Changshu site announced early 2011.
The agreement provides for the development of catalyst processes to produce renewable products.
ColorMatrix, a subsidiary of PolyOne Corporation and a leading innovator of liquid color and additives for plastics, has today announced plans to open a new facility in Africa.
LyondellBasell today announced that ZapSibNeftekhim L.L.C, a fully owned subsidiary of SIBUR, has selected the Spheripol process technology from LyondellBasell for a new 500 KT per year single-line polypropylene (PP) plant to be built in Tobolsk, Russia Federation. Start-up is projected after 2017.
Evonik’s new polyamide 12 line is planned to be built in Singapore by 2014 to increase the availability of this specialty plastic.
BASF plans to build a butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons and is scheduled to start up during 2014.
The Japanese parent company, Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) Ltd., is investing a further € 20 m in maintaining and extending the technological leadership at the injection moulding machine manufacturer Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery with its headquarters in Schwaig/Germany.
The world leader in PVDF fluoropolymer, an innovative and fast-growing (+7% p.a.) performance material, Arkema announces a major project for the development of its Kynar PVDF business in Europe.
Evonik Industries AG intends to build a facility for the biotechnology production of Biolys in the Brazilian town of Castro in the state of Paraná.
By opening the new Hubble Creek plant, Nordenia USA has nearly doubled its floor space.
