21-12-2012

KEM ONE announces a 7,000 tons/year PVC Emulsion capacity extension at its Hernani site in Spain. “By increasing PVC Emulsion production capacity to 42,000 tons/year at Hernani, we will be able to partner our customers in new developments, while also continuing to assist them with current ...

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22-11-2012

Univar Inc., a global chemical distributor, announced that its Blanquefort site, located in the French region of Bordeaux, is about to become fully operational again following an extensive €2 million refurbishment. The 18000 m2 site is used to store, package and distribute products, with a ...

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New solvent-free manufacturing process enables industrial scale production for the first time

17-09-2012

BASF has received the French Pierre Potier Prize for research achievements in the area of metal organic frameworks (MOFs). Initiated seven years ago by the two French chemical associations “Fédération Française pour les sciences de la Chimie (FFC)“ und “l’Union des Industries Chimiques ...

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29-06-2012

Arkema announces a major project for the development of its Kynar® PVDF business in Europe. Over €70M are to be invested into the Pierre-Bénite site in France, in particular to increase Kynar® PVDF production capacity by 50%, and so support customers in high-growth applications. This capital ...

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EUR 30 million investment in Port Jérôme site by 2015

01-06-2012

LANXESS is investing in its production site for high-performance rubber in Port Jérôme, France. The Group plans to invest some EUR 30 million by 2015 to further enhance productivity and energy efficiency. LANXESS produces the high-performance rubbers neodymium-polybutadiene (Nd-PBR) and ...

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Roquette's GAÏALENE industrial unit fully operational

24-02-2012

The Roquette Group is now becoming a major plant-based plastics player. It has successfully launched its first industrial production unit for GAIALENE® plant-based plastics at its main site in Lestrem (Pas-de-Calais). The construction of this industrial unit with a capacity of 25,000 tonnes ...

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13-12-2011

The Dow Chemical Company announced a capacity increase of 15% at the Company’s acrylic dispersion plant in Villers-Saint-Paul, France. This increase will help support customers’ ambitions for business growth in a range of products.Construction work began this month and production start-up is ...

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19-07-2011

Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., recently began construction on a new nonionic synthetic thickener manufacturing facility in Alizay, France. The new manufacturing facility is scheduled for completion and start-up in late spring of 2012 and will ...

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06-06-2011

On May 31st 2011, Sumitomo Seika announced a project to add a new train to the existing superabsorbent production facility at Arkema’s Carling acrylics platform (Moselle, France). This project will expand the site’s superabsorbent annual capacity to 47,000 metric tons. Startup of the new ...

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15-04-2011

Arkema has just brought on stream successfully and on schedule its new Kynar® PVDF production fluorinated polymer plant at its Changshu site in China. With this additional capacity, Arkema now boasts significant VF2 and PVDF production resources on three continents - Europe, North America and ...

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