24-06-2010

LANXESS announced the key suppliers for its new butyl rubber plant on Jurong Island in Singapore. With these suppliers in place, the project execution phase is now in full swing to set up the infrastructure for the construction of the plant. Production is scheduled to start in the first ...

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14-06-2010

Essen, Germany-based Evonik Industries officially commissioned on June 9, 2010, a new manufacturing plant for precious-metal-powder catalysts in Shanghai (China). The pharmaceuticals, fine-chemicals, and industrial-chemicals sectors use the catalysts made there to manufacture products such as ...

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27-04-2010

Chemetall Surface Treatment Turkey, a unit of Rockwoood Holdings, Inc. has announced the formal opening of its production facility in Cayirova, Kocaeli, Turkey, for Friday, April 30th, 2010. The new production facility will provide enhanced capabilities to various manufacturing sectors, ...

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New sales branch with semi-finished product warehouse in Slovakia

23-04-2010

Plastics processor ENSINGER has established a new branch in Slovakia in April. The new Trnava location is positioned in the West of the country, just 55 kilometres from the capital Bratislava. With a warehouse encompassing 200 square metres and an adjacent office suite, the technical ...

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11-02-2010

Endress+Hauser celebrated the inauguration of new production facilities for flow measurement and level and pressure measurement engineering equipment in India. The company has invested a total of 19 million euros in land, buildings and machinery at the Aurangabad site. The new 6 million euro ...

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Agreement provides 15,000 metric tons per year of high viscosity polyalphaolefins production

11-01-2010

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 ...

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10-12-2009

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., announced the commissioning of a dedicated production cell for applying metallic and ceramic coatings to airframe components. Based in St. Etienne, France, the new production cell will provide automated high ...

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22-09-2009

Leading solar photovoltaic companies in Germany are increasingly focussing on the so-called thin film technologies for the production of solar cells. Due to their lower usage of substrate materials, these innovative approaches are helping reduce production costs. Since 2005, Air Liquide has ...

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17-09-2009

Dammam 7 Petrochemicals has signed a programme management agreement with Aker Solutions for the Dammam 7 acrylic acid and acrylates complex to be realised in the Jubail 2 Industrial area in Saudi Arabia. Under the agreement, Aker Solutions will provide pre-front end engineering and design and ...

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Laboratory Expansion Strengthens Commitment to Chemistry R&D Platform in Europe

24-06-2009

AMRI announced that it has finished the construction of a new state-of-the-art chemistry R&D facility in Budapest, Hungary. The successful completion and move into 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) of laboratory and administrative space marks a significant milestone in the company’s ...

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