03-05-2013

The report "Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Market, By Application (Packaging, Food Services, Bio-medical, Agriculture) & Raw Material - Global Tends & Forecasts to 2018", defines and segments the global PHA Market with analysis and forecasting of the global revenue and consumption. PHA market ...

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04-03-2013

Oxea Advanced Derivatives first oxo derivatives plant in Nanjing Industrial Chemical Park, China, has successfully passed the planning stage and construction is under way. Oxea expects its new Nanjing plant to be mechanically complete at the end of 2013. The new state-of-the-art production ...

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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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17-12-2012

Dow Epoxy completed its 30 KTA Liquid Epoxy Resin (LER) expansion at its fully back-integrated Stade, Germany site. The facility, which has now been ramped up to full production rates, will increase the Company’s global LER capacity by 10 percent. “Our goal is to leverage and sell more epoxy ...

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14-12-2012

BASF is opening a state-of-the-art production site for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. CSB are additives-blends individually tailored to meet individual customer needs and are an integral part of the portfolio BASF offers to the plastics industry. “BASF’s ...

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KIT researchers develop new method to produce metal-organic frameworks

06-12-2012

Researchers of the KIT Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Jacobs University Bremen, and other institutions have developed a new method to produce metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). By means of the so-called liquid-phase epitaxy, the scientists succeeded in producing a new class of MOFs ...

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Recent technological breakthroughs in lignin extraction and conversion could change the course of the oil-based chemical industry

28-11-2012

Addressing markets worth more than 130 billion dollars, lignin could become the main renewable aromatic resource for the chemical industry in the future. The first opportunity could emerge as early as 2015 from the direct substitution of phenol in most of its industrial applications: phenolic ...

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21-11-2012

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has opened a new X-ray diffraction manufacturing facility in Wrocław, Poland. The state-of-the-art facility gives Agilent significantly greater manufacturing capacity and enhanced R&D capabilities compared with the company’s old facility. The new site ...

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20-11-2012

Oxea, a global supplier of Oxo Intermediates and Oxo Derivatives, announced for the third quarter of 2012 continued stable results with an adjusted EBITDA of €46 million after €46 million in Q2 2012 and €45 million in Q1 2012. Considering the general summer seasonality in the Northern ...

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19-11-2012

On November 16, Evonik will celebrate 50 years of making isophorone chemicals. This is an important milestone for the company, and some 200 customers, employees, and pensioned former employees will join Evonik Executive Board members Dr. Thomas Haeberle and Thomas Wessel in Herne to look back ...

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