Hexcel building Carbon Fiber Plant in Europe

17-Nov-2005 - Hexcel Corporation provided details of its previously announced capacity expansion for Magnamite® carbon fiber. As part of that program, Hexcel is building a carbon fiber plant near Madrid, Spain. In the United States, the Company is adding an additional carbon fiber line to its Salt Lake City, ...

LANXESS plans to sell Dorlastan fibers business to Asahi Kasei Fibers of Japan

17-Nov-2005 - The chemicals group LANXESS has completed the search for a purchaser for its Dorlastan® fibers business. This morning, LANXESS and Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation (AKF) of Osaka, Japan, widely agreed on the probable text of a sale and purchase agreement for the Dorlastan® business and signed a ...

Akzo Nobel Opens New Chinese Powder Coatings Site

16-Nov-2005 - CEO Hans Wijers yesterday officially opend Akzo Nobel's new powder coatings facility at Langfang in China. The new site - located between Beijing and Tianjin - not only consolidates the company's position as the world's largest manufacturer of powder coatings, but will also ensure that the ...

Novasep Process SFC systems wins Bronze 2005 CPhI Innovation Award

16-Nov-2005 - Novasep Process has won Bronze at 2005 CPhI Innovation awards. The conference entitled :"Latest Advances in Preparative Supercritical Fluid Chromatographic Separation Technologies" has been presented in Madrid on 1st November 2005. Preparative SFC (Supercritical Fluid Chromatography) uses ...

BASF starts up amino resins plant in Shanghai,

15-Nov-2005 - BASF celebrated the start of the commercial production of its amino resins plant located at BASF Auxiliary Chemicals Company Limited in Pudong, Shanghai, China, today. The plant reinforces BASF's commitment to long-term growth in the amino resins markets in China and the Asia Pacific region. ...

Kemira starting up production of pulp and paper chemicals in China

15-Nov-2005 - Kemira will make an investment in a production plant for paper chemicals in Yixing, PRC China. The unit will be built in connection with Kemira's existing water treatment chemicals plant, located ca. 160 km from Shanghai. The production of paper chemicals will be started during the first half of ...

Cognis and Golden Hope agree to expand oleochemicals joint venture

15-Nov-2005 - Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG ("Cognis") and Golden Hope Plantations Berhad ("Golden Hope") have formally agreed to expand the scope of their existing joint venture with the transfer of Cognis' global oleochemicals and plastics technology businesses. Following the signing of a memorandum of ...

LANXESS receives award for innovative process in the fluorination of chiral hydroxy compounds

15-Nov-2005 - Dr. Axel Pleschke of the Fine Chemicals Business Unit of LANXESS Deutschland GmbH took second place in this year's CPhI Innovation Award with his paper entitled "Fluorination of chiral compounds at technical scale". The papers were presented on November 1 at the Conference on Pharmaceutical ...

LGC rebrands reference standards

Mikromol range of reference substances and custom synthesis services join LGC brand of quality standards

15-Nov-2005 - LGC has announced its migration of the Mikromol brand, most notably the range of pharmaceutical impurity reference standards, to its own brand at the 2005 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), Somerset, New Jersey, USA, 14-17 November. The pharmaceutical industry is required to control impurities, ...

Basell names Alan Bigman CFO, succeeding Wolfgang Mende

14-Nov-2005 - Basell announced that Alan Bigman, Senior Vice President of Access Industries, will succeed Wolfgang Mende as Chief Financial Officer of Basell Holdings B.V. on January 1, 2006. Bigman will also be a member of the Company's Management Board. Mende, CFO and member of the Management Board since the ...