Total Petrochemicals announces that it has formed an exclusive alliance with Shaw’s Energy & Chemicals Group to jointly market and license Total Petrochemicals’ polystyrene technology on a worldwide basis.
Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s leading producer of rigid plastic packaging, has announced a major expansion of extrusion blow molded PP bottle capacity in the Midwest, Southwest, and Canada in response to strong market demand for packaging for food and nutritional supplements.
Clariant continues to expand its global production capabilities to support customers in the Greater China region, with the inauguration of a new pigments facility.
German specialty chemicals firm Lanxess has announced that it will proceed to invest another 200-million-euro to build a second new neodymium polybutadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) plant in Singapore on September 11 this year.
In 2011 La Seda de Barcelona (LSB) completed its financial and operational restructuring process successfully. After refinancing its debt with the banks and redefining its core business by focusing on the Plastic Packaging sector, LSB is now facing a growth strategy for 2012 to allow its consolidation as one of the European leaders in this field.
LyondellBasell today announced that Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., a joint venture of Samsung Group and Total S.A, has selected the Lupotech T process technology from LyondellBasell for its new 200 KT per-year low density polyethylene (LDPE) and ethyl vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer plant in Daesan, South Korea. Start-up is projected for 2013.
Tetra Pak has inaugurated its new packaging material factory in Finland. The factory, located in the town of Imatra, with a planned capacity of 500 million packages per year, will expand Tetra Pak’s gable top capacity for Northern Europe.
Bayer MaterialScience can begin construction in Dormagen of a new world-scale plant for a key plastics precursor.
In February 2011, Borghi has broken ground on the construction of an addition to the Borghi factory.
ExxonMobil Yugen Kaisha (EMYK) announced that Japan Butyl Co. Ltd. (JBC) will expand the capacity of its halobutyl rubber manufacturing plant at Kashima to 80,000 tons per year. The expansion is planned to be completed in 2012.
The Klöckner Pentaplast Group announced today that it broke ground on January 18, 2012, for construction of its first manufacturing facility in China.
Roquette and Rhodia Acetow have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to develop new plant-based polymers.