Recent significant investment and new business vice president position Dow to fully support customer growth in the polyurethanes industry

11-04-2012

The Dow Chemical Company has made significant strategic moves over the past six months, strengthening its long-term commitment and investments in its Polyurethane business, while enhancing the competitiveness of its already strong asset foundation. These strategic moves are ultimately ...

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Pilot plant in Leverkusen is one of the “Selected Landmarks 2012”

06-02-2012

A Bayer project for using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a component for plastics is among Germany’s most promising ideas for the future. The “Dream Production” research initiative is one of the award winners in this year’s “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” competition. A pilot plant ...

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04-01-2012

Huntsman Corporation announced that it has acquired EMA Kimya Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., an MDI-based polyurethanes systems house in Istanbul, Turkey. As a result of the deal, EMA will become part of Huntsman’s Polyurethanes division and will be known as Huntsman-EMA. EMAs’ two major ...

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21-12-2011

Raimar Jahn (53), currently head of BASF’s Coatings division, will become President of BASF’s Polyurethanes division, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium effective March 1, 2012. He succeeds Wayne T. Smith who has been appointed to the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE effective at the ...

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Net income more than doubled to EUR 642 million (plus 125.3 percent)

01-11-2011

The Bayer Group achieved further sales growth and significantly increased earnings in the third quarter of 2011. “It was a good quarter for Bayer,” Management Board Chairman Dr. Marijn Dekkers said Thursday at the presentation of the interim report. He described the continuing growth momentum ...

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26-09-2011

With a second Russian polyurethane systems site, BASF strengthens its worldwide network of close to the customer PU System Houses. In spring 2012, the applications technology center near St. Petersburg will start operations which will provide polyurethane customers with comprehensive local ...

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09-08-2011

A novel process for the production of plastics using carbon dioxide has made Bayer AG a favorite for this year’s German Sustainability Award. The company is among the top three candidates in the category “Germany’s Most Sustainable Initiatives.” Bayer was nominated for the Dream Production ...

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27-07-2011

The polyurethanes division of Huntsman Corporation announces its involvement in an ambitious European collaborative research project focused on advancing composite materials technology, to bring it closer to mass-production for automotive applications.HIVOCOMP is a consortium of automotive ...

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Fully integrated 300,000 metric tons plant to start up in 2014

30-05-2011

BASF will build the world’s largest single-train TDI (toluene diisocyanate) plant in Europe. The plant will have a capacity of 300,000 metric tons per year and will be fully integrated with precursor production. The TDI plant will be located at one of the company’s integrated Verbund sites in ...

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05-05-2011

Huntsman Polyurethanes has been invited to join the Bark Biorefinery Consortium Project, a four-year joint venture between academia and industry that is exploring how best to extract value from tree bark that is a forest residue left over by the lumber industry.The collaborative research ...

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