22-01-2013

BASF and PETRONAS announced that the Heads of Agreement (HoA) between the two parties for a joint speciality chemicals venture within PETRONAS’ Refinery & Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Pengerang, Johor, has been terminated by mutual agreement. The HoA was signed on ...

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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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16-11-2012

Chemical company Oxea announced that after a construction period of approximately one year it has successfully started up its new unit “Ester 2” for the production of specialty esters in Oberhausen, Germany. This new facility will boost Oxea’s production capacity for specialty esters by over ...

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08-02-2011

AkzoNobel's ambition to accelerate growth and increase revenue in India to €1 billion within the next five years has been underlined by the official opening of a new Industrial Coatings plant near Bangalore.The facility - which will produce coil and specialty plastic coatings - is located in ...

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New Pigment Joint Venture to Open in Hangzhou

21-10-2010

Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant continues to strengthen its presence in Greater China with the official opening of its new Greater China headquarters in Shanghai today, October 20, 2010. The new facility also includes a new technical application center for pigments. Clariant ...

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New production facilities for engineering plastics

17-06-2010

Specialty chemicals group LANXESS remains committed to its growth strategy in the BRIC states and plans to expand its new production site in India. The Group is now set to build compounding facilities with an initial capacity of 20,000 metric tons/year for the production of the engineering ...

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31-05-2010

Specialty chemicals supplier Cognis officially opened a new state-of-the-art production facility for alkyl polyglucoside (APG®) surfactants at its site in Jinshan, China. The company also signed the Responsible Care Charter there. Along with its other two production sites for APG® surfactants ...

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30-04-2010

AkzoNobel is to build an additional plant at its Ningbo multi-site for its Functional Chemicals business. The new €17 million project - part of a total investment of €275 million - will further expand the company's rapidly growing organic peroxides activities. Production of chelates has ...

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Investment in additional production line at Wuxi site

22-04-2010

LANXESS will expand capacities at its state-of-the-art compounding plant for high-tech plastics in Wuxi, China. The specialty chemicals company will invest in a third production line at the plant, which will increase compounding capacities by nearly 50 percent and is scheduled to go on stream ...

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12-04-2010

AkzoNobel has underlined its strategic commitment to investing in high growth markets following the official opening of a plant expansion for the manufacture of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in China. The company's Taixing site - which now boasts production capacity of 60,000 MT/year - is the ...

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