19-03-2013

The Dow Chemical Company announced that it intends to build several new, specialty material production units aligned to its high value Performance Plastics franchise on the U.S. Gulf Coast.The move further connects the Company’s U.S. manufacturing operations with cost-advantaged feedstocks ...

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19-03-2013

Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc., has opened new curing agent manufacturing capabilities at a facility in China. The new plant, located in Tianjin, China, expands MSC’s regional capacity to produce amine curing agents. Using locally sourced raw materials, the facility can manufacture a full ...

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15-03-2013

BASF has announced that it will start-up a new multi-million euro fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts testing and research laboratory at the hte Aktiengesellschaft (hte) facility in Heidelberg, Germany. The new BASF laboratory will begin operating in the first half of 2014, and will be ...

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15-02-2013

Airgas, Inc. announced plans to build a new 450 ton-per-day liquid carbon dioxide plant in the greater Houston area to replace its plant at the Shell Deer Park Refinery complex that is expected to close late this year. Airgas has entered into long-term agreements with affiliates of Denbury ...

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13-02-2013

The SensoTech GmbH extends its market presence in North America with a new U.S. subsidiary and thereby reinforces team of sales and service staff. As a subsidiary of the German SensoTech GmbH, the SensoTech Incorporation which is located in Wayne, New Jersey, closely works together with ...

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Capacity to be increased by 11 million pounds per year

28-01-2013

Eastman Chemical Company announced a debottleneck of butyric acid production capacity at its Kingsport, Tennessee, facility. The debottleneck, scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2013, will add an additional 11 million pounds of capacity to support growing internal and external ...

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23-01-2013

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP announced it is studying the possibility of expanding its normal alpha olefins (NAO) capacity – targeting at least a 20 percent increase in a phased approach – at its Cedar Bayou Chemical Complex in Baytown and the company has filed the necessary ...

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17-01-2013

Oxea has developed several innovative continuous processes to expand its production at its site in Bishop, Texas, USA. The optimizations will add significant further volume, beyond the already announced capacity increases for Potassium Formate and Trimethylolpropane (TMP). Potassium Formate ...

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Thirty percent global capacity expansions planned for silica by 2014

21-12-2012

Evonik Industries plans to increase its annual production capacities for precipitated silica at its US site in Chester, PA by around 20,000 metric tons. The new facility, which received an investment in the lower double-digit Euros range, is scheduled to become operational in 2014. The ...

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10-12-2012

Evonik Industries completed its expansion of capacity for the feed amino acid L-lysine in North America in autumn 2012. Production capacity at the Blair site in Nebraska, U.S.A., was doubled to 280,000 metric tons per year in two stages. “Evonik is also working to further expand capacity by ...

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