04-10-2012

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC congratulates Saudi Polymers Company and its joint venture partner, National Petrochemical Company, as the joint venture’s manufacturing facility located in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, begins commercial production. “We will now be working to fill the ...

more

20-09-2012

Colorant Chromatics, a subsidiary of PolyOne Corporation, announced plans to expand production and service capabilities at its Shanghai facility. These improvements are in response to growing demand for Colorant Chromatics technologies that help customers improve operational and supply chain ...

more

EUR 75 million investment in new polymerization plant in Antwerp

04-06-2012

LANXESS is investing EUR 75 million in the construction of a new plant for high-tech plastics in Antwerp. The world-scale facility for polyamide plastics is designed for an annual capacity of 90,000 metric tons and scheduled to begin operation in the first quarter of 2014. “This investment is ...

more

14-02-2012

Ashland Inc. s responding to strong demand for Plasdone™ polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) by adding new low-viscosity, pharmaceutical-grade PVP capacity at its manufacturing facility in Calvert City, Ky., U.S.A. The new capacity will further strengthen Ashland’s position in the market and will ...

more

27-01-2012

Emerald Kalama Chemical, a division of Emerald Performance Materials, announced that it has started the construction of a new operation to produce K-FLEX® non-phthalate plasticizers and coalescents at its facility in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The new operation is scheduled to be ...

more

08-12-2011

Evonik Industries plans to expand capacities for the specialty polymer polyamide 12. First, the Group is significantly expanding its existing plant in Marl; second, the Executive Board has now approved preliminary and basic planning for a large new polyamide 12 production facility in Asia. ...

more

New plant will be operational end of 2012

22-07-2011

BASF will significantly expand its presence in the Middle East region by building a state-of-the-art plant for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in Bahrain. CSBs are key additives for the production of polymers for the plastics industry, especially for the Middle East ...

more

27-06-2011

Solvay announced it has launched a project to build a specialty polymers production plant for SOLEF® Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF), Tecnoflon® Fluoroelastomers (FKM) and their essential monomer VF2 in China to satisfy the growing demand for these high value-added specialty polymers in Asia. ...

more

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 ...

more

10-01-2011

In 2007 Arkema announced the construction of a Kynar® PVDF fluorinated polymer production plant on its Changshu site in China, scheduled to come on stream in March 2011. Arkema has now decided to speed up the development of this plant, and announces a 50% production increase effective ...

more