An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Henkel awards outstanding suppliers

At the 2012 American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention, January 30 through February 4 in Orlando, Florida, Henkel recognized four outstanding suppliers for their excellent cooperation. The “Henkel Sustainability Award”, which is presented for the first time, wa ... more

BASF inaugurates its first sodium methylate plant in South America

BASF officially inaugurated its new world-scale production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguetá, Brazil, its largest site in South America. The plant has a capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year and is supplying the regional market. Production started at the end of 2011 and the plan ... more

BASF Venture Capital invests $5 million in US-based Solidia Technologies

BASF Venture Capital GmbH is investing $5 million in Solidia Technologies, Inc. as part of a $27 million financing round. The current round of financing also included Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, BP Ventures and Bright Capital, the venture arm of Ru-Com Corporation. Solidia Technolog ... more

BASF Construction Polymers GmbH

BASF Construction Polymers GmbH, Trostberg, Germany, is a leading innovator and producer of construction and oilfield polymers. Our product portfolio for construction chemicals consists of superplasticizers, dispersants, plasticizers, rheology modifying agents, stabilizers, defoamers and ai ... more

BASF Construction Chemicals Europe AG

BASF Construction Chemicals Europe AG in Schaffhausen/Switzerland belongs to the Business Unit Construction Systems Europe of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen/Germany. We develop, manufacture and supply flooring solutions which meet all requirements. Our MASTERTOP product range offers epoxy and polyu ... more

BASF Mexicana, S.A. de C.V.

In order to be able to take advantage of the opportunities for profitable growth throughout the world, BASF is represented with production and sales facilities in all economic regions. Even though Europe is BASF's home market, the dynamic regions of North America, Asia and South America are ... more

An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethylene Market Outlook 2008" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethylene, including Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Oceania. It provides the most complete and curre ... more

Extensive Guide for Linking Trade Name Chemicals To Generic Chemicals and Manufacturers

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Industrial Chemical Thesaurus, Fourth Edition-2004 to their offering. This thesaurus serves as the most comprehensive source for linking trade name chemicals to generic chemicals and manufacturers. This resource contains over 75,000 trade n ... more

Henkel awards outstanding suppliers

At the 2012 American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention, January 30 through February 4 in Orlando, Florida, Henkel recognized four outstanding suppliers for their excellent cooperation. The “Henkel Sustainability Award”, which is presented for the first time, wa ... more

Dow Home & Personal Care Receives “Best Innovation Contributor 2011” Award from Henkel

Dow Home & Personal Care, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company received the “Best Innovation Contributor 2011” award from Henkel Laundry & Home Care at the 2012 American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention, Jan. 30 to Feb. 4, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. Ever ... more

SCG-DOW Group Achieves Successful Thailand HPPO Plant Start-up

The Dow Chemical Company announced that the SCG-Dow Group, a joint venture between Dow and Siam Cement Group, has finalized the start-up of its new propylene oxide (PO) facility in Thailand by successfully completing its full capacity performance test.  Dow reached a key milestone in Octobe ... more

The Dow Chemical Company

With annual sales of $58 billion in 2008 and 46,000 employees worldwide, Dow is a diversified chemical company that combines the power of science and technology with the " Human Element ” to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. The Company delivers a broad range of produ ... more

Univar builds state-of-the-art ‘White Room’

Univar Inc. announced that it is building a new facility to expand its white oils handling and distribution capabilities. The investment will enable Univar to better service an extended agreement to distribute ExxonMobil’s white oil brands Marcol and Primol across Europe, the Middle East an ... more

Air Products' Nitrogen Recovery Unit Equipment Selected for ExxonMobil Texas Project

Air Products announced that it will provide its nitrogen recovery unit (NRU) and cryogenic gas processing equipment for an ExxonMobil project in Hawkins, Tex. The new NRU plant will be operated by ExxonMobil and will process approximately 140 million standard cubic feet per day of gas. Th ... more

Albemarle Announces Custom Manufacturing Agreement With ExxonMobil Chemical

Albemarle Corporation announces the successful start-up of a new unit to produce SpectraSyn(TM) polyalphaolefins (PAO), a high viscosity basestock for lubricants, for ExxonMobil Chemical. The plant's 15,000 mt/yr capacity was successfully rate tested in November. Albemarle's custom manufac ... more

Huntsman Acquires Turkish Polyurethanes Systems House

Huntsman Corporation announced that it has acquired EMA Kimya Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., an MDI-based polyurethanes systems house in Istanbul, Turkey. As a result of the deal, EMA will become part of Huntsman’s Polyurethanes division and will be known as Huntsman-EMA. EMAs’ two majo ... more

Huntsman to Increase MDI and MDI-Based Systems Prices in Europe

The Polyurethanes division of Huntsman Corporation announced that it will increase the price of all its MDI products and MDI-based systems by €100 (euro)/tonne in the European region (Europe, Africa, Middle East, Former Soviet Union) from 1st January  2012.Nick Webster, Vice President, Euro ... more

Huntsman clinch top prize at IChemE Awards

Huntsman Pigments won the top prize at last night’s IChemE 2011 Awards ceremony for its revamped site in Calais, France.  More than 400 guests from all over the world were in Birmingham, UK for the event celebrating chemical engineering innovation and excellence. Huntsman was awarded the Ou ... more

Huntsman (Germany) GmbH

Our Osnabrück facility specialises in the manufacture of TPU elastomers and crosslinkers. TPU Elastomers are used for large variety of applications such as extrusion and injection molding products (shoe industry, automotive industry, machinery equipment, production of hoses, film and sheet ... more

BASF and Sinopec complete second phase of Nanjing investment, announce new plans for expansion

BASF and SINOPEC inaugurated the $1.4 billion second phase of their integrated petrochemical site in Nanjing, bringing crucial chemicals to the China market that will support the development of more sustainable local industries. “Through this successful partnership, we are able to bring vit ... more

Air Liquide: Further investment in China

Air Liquide and Sinopec (China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation) have agreed on the supply of gaseous oxygen and nitrogen to Maoming branch of Sinopec (MPCC) 200,000 Nm³/h coal-to-hydrogen project and existing refinery in Maoming, Guangdong province, China. This refinery expansion project ... more

Sinopec and SIBUR plan two joint ventures and extend their cooperation

Within the framework of the working visit to China by Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) and SIBUR have entered into a Memorandum of Extended Cooperation on the possible formation of two joint ventures for the pro ... more

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec)

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "Sinopec Corp.") is a listed company on domestic and international stock exchanges with integrated upstream, midstream and downstream operations, strong oil & petrochemical core businesses and a complete marketing network. more

Mitsubishi International GmbH

As a leading subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation in Europe, we are not only engaged in general trading but supply clients with a wide variety of services. Such as... * providing efficient, low-cost distribution to ensure that supply meets demand * raising funds under advantageou ... more

Mitsubishi Corporation

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Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.

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Tosoh Bioscience celebrates its 20th Anniversary

20 years ago, on July 20, 1989, TosoHaas opened the doors to the Biopharmaceutical industry. Starting out with a team of five employees, TosoHaas, over time, developed into a profitable business with constant growth. In the start TosoHaas focused on promoting the nowadays well known TSK-GE ... more

An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethylene Market Outlook 2008" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethylene, including Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Oceania. It provides the most complete and curre ... more

Nippon Polyurethane Industry Becomes Tosoh Subsidiary

Tosoh Corporation announced that it will raise its stake in Nippon Polyurethane Industry Co. Ltd. (NPU) to 51% from the current 35% by acquiring NPU shares held by affiliate, Hodogaya Chemical Co. Ltd. The move further accelerates Tosoh's vinyl-isocyanate strategy and strengthens ties as th ... more

EcoSEC - the semi-micro GPC/SEC system for high throughput polymer analysis

EcoSEC is a compact all–in–one system for high throughput analysis of natural or synthetic polymers by semi-micro gel permeation chromatography (GPC/SEC) more

Fast and efficient characterization of water soluble polymers

TSKgel SuperMultiporePW SEC columns provide near linear calibration curves for the analysis of size distributions of polymers, such as PVP or dextran more

Everything you need to know about gel filtration on TSKgel HPLC columns

Tosoh Bioscience, a leading supplier of SEC technology, presents a new brochure featuring the use of TSKgel columns for SEC with aqueous mobile phases more

TSK-GEL® HILIC column brochure

Tosoh Bioscience presents a new brochure featuring the use of TSK-GEL HILIC columns. HILIC is the method of choice for the separation of very polar and hydrophilic compounds. Typical HILIC applications are the analysis of glycans, carbohydrates, peptides, polar drugs and metabolites, vitami ... more

Characterizing Biotherapeutics with HPLC

As demonstrated here, there are a broad range of HPLC applications used in development, production, validation and release of protein therapeutics for human use. Some of the applications mentioned above are mandatory when submitting a new biopharmaceutical to approval at the regulatory agen ... more

Increased productivity for downstream processing of biotherapeutics

Polymer-based chromatographic resins featuring high mechanical and chemical stability and high protein binding capacities can help to increase the throughput and robustness of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Advances in genetic engineering and cell culture technology have raised ... more

Analysis of water soluble polymers using linear size exclusion HPLC columns and a semi-micro SEC system

One of the most widely used water-soluble polymers is Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). For more than 70 years it is applied in a variety of applications in medicine, pharmacy, cosmetics and industrial production. PVP binds to polar molecules exceptionally well. It supports the solubility of tabl ... more

Chromatography in Process Development & Production - International Course

This course provides a comprehensive background to bioprocess chromatographic purification as an integrated process technique. It provides a balance of presentations and practical hands-on experience with process scale and methods development equipment under the guidance of qualified and kn ... more

Chromatography in Process Development & Production - German Language Course

This course provides a comprehensive background to bioprocess chromatographic purification as an integrated process technique. It provides a balance of presentations and practical hands-on experience with process scale and methods development equipment under the guidance of qualified and kn ... more

TOSOH BIOSCIENCE GmbH

Tosoh Bioscience is an acknowledged global leader in the field of liquid chromatography with a focus on bioseparations. Tosoh’s portfolio of over 500 specialty products encompasses GPC instruments and a comprehensive line of media and prepacked HPLC columns for all common modes of liquid ch ... more

TOSOH Europe B.V.

TOSOH Europe B.V. is a regional head office for Tosoh Corporation and serves as the European sales, marketing, and business development center. The Company is proud to provide innovative products with reliable service that customers can depend on. As part of Tosoh Corporation’s overall stra ... more

Lonza extends tender offer for all outstanding shares of Arch Chemicals common stock

Lonza Group Ltd announced that LG Acquisition Corp., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Lonza, has extended the expiration date for its previously announced tender offer for 100 percent of the outstanding shares of common stock of Arch Chemicals, Inc.. The tender offer is at a price of ... more

Lonza to acquire Arch Chemicals

Lonza Group Ltd and Arch Chemicals, Inc. announced that they have signed an agreement pursuant to which Lonza has agreed to commence a tender offer for 100 percent of Arch Chemicals’ outstanding shares of common stock at a price of USD 47.20 per share in cash. Lonza’s offer represents a 36. ... more

Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS and Lonza cooperate in the microreactor technology

Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS (EMB), a Bayer Technology Services company, and Lonza signed a worldwide manufacturing and distribution license agreement together with a cooperation and development agreement on the Lonza microreactor technology. Under the terms of the agreements, EMB will acquire ... more

Lonza Ibérica SA

Lonza Ibérica is responsible for the sales and market development of Fine Chemicals, Biocides, Vitamines and other Exclusive products cGMP or not in Spain and Portugal. Moreover, some of our business is in the area of Custom Synthesis for Life Science companies. Lonza Ibérica works as our c ... more

Lonza Ltd.

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Lonza Verviers, S.p.r.l.

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An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethylene Market Outlook 2008" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethylene, including Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Oceania. It provides the most complete and curre ... more

Arkema has finalized the acquisition of Repsol YPF

Arkema has finalized the acquisition of the Repsol YPF group's PMMA sheet and block business. This activity will become part of its PMMA and Methacrylics business unit. This acquisition will allow Altuglas International, an Arkema subsidiary, to bolster its position as European leader in th ... more

Arkema plans acquisition of the PMMA sheet and block production activity from the Repsol YPF group

Arkema announced the planned acquisition of the PMMA sheet and block production activity from the Repsol YPF group. According to Christophe de Saint Louvent, Group President of Arkema's PMMA and Methacrylics business, "this acquisition represents an excellent growth opportunity in a segmen ... more

Repsol YPF S.A.

Repsol YPF is an integrated international oil and gas company, operating in more than 30 countries and is the leader in Spain and Argentina. more

Sasol Limited board approved construction of new ethylene purification unit

The Sasol Limited board has recently approved the construction of a R1.9 billion ethylene purification unit at its Sasol Polymers plant in Sasolburg. The plant is expected to go on stream in the second half of 2013 and will be ramped up to full capacity by 2015. The unit will enable the Sa ... more

Sasol to invest R 8,4 billion in wax production in South Africa

Sasol has approved an investment of R 8,4 billion which will double the Sasol Wax production of hard wax in South Africa. The investment will be done in two phases. Phase one will come into operation in 2012 and will increase the hard wax capacity by close to 40%. The investment for phase ... more

Sasol Initiates Consultation Ahead of Possible Plant Closure

Sasol announced the initiation of consultations with various stakeholders ahead of a possible closure of Sasol Nitro's phosphoric acid operations in Phalaborwa. The plant, which manufactures phosphoric acid from mainly phosphate rock and sulphur, has had varying financial success during it ... more

Sasol Olefins & Surfactants GmbH

Sasol Olefins & Surfactants is a division of Sasol Chemical Industries and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. We are a leading global supplier of detergent raw materials including LAB, fatty alcohols, surfactants, detergent ingredients and synthetic high purity aluminas. Our diversified ... more

Sasol Italy S.p.A.

Sasol Italy spa, with headquarters in Milan, is a fully integrated producer of n-parraffins and n-olefins derived from oil-based feedstocks. A good part of these intermediates is captively consumed to obtain linear alkylbenzene(LAB) and sulphonic acid (LAS), derivatives and fatty oxo0alcoh ... more

Sasol Germany GmbH

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An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethylene Market Outlook 2008" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethylene, including Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Oceania. It provides the most complete and curre ... more

BOC and SPC to form industrial gases joint venture in Shanghai, China

BOC and Shanghai Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (SPC), a subsidiary of Sinopec Group, have signed an agreement to form a 50/50 industrial gases joint venture (JV) and entered into a contract to supply industrial gases to SPC and nearby users in Shanghai, China. The JV, BOC-SPC Gases Company Ltd., ... more

Emerson Digitally Automates $2.7 Billion Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Complex

Emerson Process Management announced the completion of a digital automation project at one of the largest integrated petrochemical complexes in China. Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Company selected Emerson in 2003 as its digital automation partner for the $2.7 billion, 10-plant ethylene crac ... more

Süd-Chemie and LG Chem to jointly manufacture high quality LFP

Dr. Günter von Au, Chairman of the Managing Board (CEO) of Süd-Chemie AG, Munich/Germany, and Peter Bahnsuk Kim, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LG Chem, Ltd., Seoul/Korea, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a joint venture for high volume produc ... more

Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastic Without the use of Fossil Fuels

A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This groundbreaking research, which may now allow for the production of environmentally consci ... more

An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethylene Market Outlook 2008" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethylene, including Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Oceania. It provides the most complete and curre ... more

LG Chem Ltd.

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An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethylene Market Outlook 2008" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethylene, including Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Oceania. It provides the most complete and curre ... more

The Dow Chemical Company and Davy Process Technology License LP OxoSM Technology to Tianjin Soda Plant in China

Dow Technology Licensing, a business unit of the Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated affiliates (Dow), and Davy Process Technology Limited (DPT), a Johnson Matthey company, announced that Tianjin Soda Plant (Tianjin Soda) of Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Company Limited has selected ... more

Air Liquide: Major investment in the new development zone in Tianjin (China)

Air Liquide announced the signature of a Joint Venture contract with Tianjin Soda Plant, a subsidiary of the Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Group, on July 26, 2006. Under the terms of the JV contract, Air Liquide and Tianjin Soda will create a joint venture company in Tianjin, in which A ... more

Chevron Phillips Chemical Announces Study to Develop World-Scale Ethane Cracker on the U.S. Gulf Coast

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP  announced that it is advancing a feasibility study to construct a world-scale ethane cracker and ethylene derivatives at one of its existing facilities in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. The new facility would utilize the advantaged feed sources expected fr ... more

Chevron Phillips Chemical Names New General Counsel

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP named Tim Hill as the company’s senior vice president, legal and public affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary. Prior to being named general counsel, Hill had served as assistant general counsel since joining the company in May, 2001. Before c ... more

Chevron Phillips Chemical Names New Leadership Team Member

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP announced the appointment of Chantal Veevaete to Vice President, Human Resources, effective April 3, 2009. Veevaete replaces Don Kremer, who has elected to retired. Veevaete began her career at a private legal practice in Belgium in 1980. In 1981, she ... more

Borealis Student Innovation Award 2011: recognising high quality olefins and polyolefins theses of outstanding students

Borealis, has announced the winners of its 2011 Borealis Student Innovation Awards. On January 19, 2012 Alfred Stern, Borealis Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology, presented Rana Qudaih and Dr. Said Mehdiabadi with their awards, certificates and monetary prizes at the Lentos Kunst ... more

Borealis increases polyethylene and polypropylene prices

Borealis announced that it will increase all polyethylene and polypropylene prices by EUR 100/tonne for January, 2012. “This decision to increase prices reflects our assumptions on the economic development and it's necessary for the implementation of our Value Creation through Innovation st ... more

Borealis made offer to acquire PEC-Rhin from GPN

Borealis has made a firm offer to GPN to acquire PEC-Rhin in its entirety. This is related to GPN, which owns a 50% interest in PEC-Rhin, having exercised its pre-emption right for the remaining 50% stake from BASF SE. Following this firm offer, the relevant employee representatives are bei ... more

Borealis AG

With more than 40 years of experience in polyolefins and using our unique Borstar® technology, we focus on providing plastic materials to the infrastructure, automotive and advanced packaging markets across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Our production facilities, innovation centres and ... more

Borealis Polyolefine GmbH

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Borealis AG

With more than 50 years of experience in polyolefins and using our unique Borstar® technology, we focus on providing plastic materials to the infrastructure, automotive and advanced packaging markets across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Our production facilities, innovation centres an ... more

An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethylene Market Outlook 2008" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethylene, including Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Oceania. It provides the most complete and curre ... more

Polimeri Europa SpA

Polimeri Europa - a petrochemical company wholly owned and controlled by Eni SpA, manages the production and marketing of a wide portfolio of petrochemical products, having the possibility to use a range of proprietary technologies and state-of-the-art production systems, a wide-reaching an ... more

Equistar to Add Feedstock Flexibility at Corpus Christi

Equistar Chemicals announced that its Corpus Christi, Texas, olefins plant will transition to a feedstock slate of nearly all natural gas liquids (NGL) in 2010. Equistar will idle the site’s butadiene extraction and hydrodealkylation units as part of this transition. "Positioning the Corpu ... more

An Analysis of the Ethylene Global Market Outlook for 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethylene Market Outlook 2008" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethylene, including Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Oceania. It provides the most complete and curre ... more

Equistar Chemicals, LP

Equistar is one of the largest producers of ethylene, propylene and polyethylene in North America and a leading producer of ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol, high value-added specialty polymers and polymeric powder. more