LANXESS expands capacities for high-tech plastics in China

Investment in additional production line at Wuxi site

22-Apr-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 ...

Changing the Channel in Nanoelectronics

New computer simulations may help in the design of efficient molecular wires

21-Apr-2010 - Two types of trends can be identified in the length-dependent conductance of molecular wires, according to Chinese scientists. In an article published in ChemPhysChem, Jianwei Zhao and colleagues describe different length–conductivity relationships in molecular wires depending on the structures ...

Songwon extends its additives manufacturing and customer support capabilities in China for Songnox antioxidant products

21-Apr-2010 - Songwon Industrial Co., Ltd. and Tangshan Baifu Chemical Ltd. announce their intention to form a joint venture to manufacture and sell Thioester antioxidants. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding whereby Songwon shall take an initial stake of 30% in Tangshan Baifu Chemical ...

BASF to establish new System Houses in West China and Colombia

13-Apr-2010 - BASF will further expand its global service and production network. With the establishment of a new Polyurethane Solutions System House in West China, BASF will meet the demand of the growing markets in industries like Construction, Appliance, Transportation, and Footwear. The new System House ...

Eurofins Adds Chemical Safety Testing for Leather in China according to EU and US regulations

23-Mar-2010 - Eurofins Scientific announced the addition of leather testing to its range of services offered from its state-of-the-art laboratory in Shenzhen, China. The way that leather is produced and the wide range of products that incorporate leather means that compliance with a range of regulations in ...

Air Liquide: A €40m contract with a steel producer in northeastern China

18-Mar-2010 - Air Liquide has signed another major long-term contract in the steel industry in China. It will invest about €40 million in Yichun, Heilongjiang Province (northeastern China), 350 kilometres north of Harbin, Heilongjiang’s capital city, to supply Xilin Steel Group, a new customer, with oxygen, ...

Researchers show applied electric field can significantly improve hydrogen storage properties

05-Feb-2010 - An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system. Many researchers have their sights set on hydrogen as an ...

Huntsman Announces Chinese Polyols Joint Venture with Jurong Ningwu Chemical Company

14-Jan-2010 - The Polyurethanes division of Huntsman Corporation announced the creation of a new, China-based, joint venture with Jurong Ningwu Chemical Co. Ltd, to research, develop, manufacture and sell base polyether polyol products. The joint venture company will be known as Jurong New Ningwu Chemical Co. ...

Uhde to supply energy-efficient hydrochloric acid electrolysis plant to Yantai Juli, China

11-Jan-2010 - Uhde has been awarded an engineering and procurement contract for the construction of a hydrochloric acid electrolysis plant by Yantai Juli Isocyanate Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of polyurethane. The plant, with a production capacity of 100,000 tpa hydrochloric acid, will be constructed at ...

AkzoNobel’s Ningbo plant starts production

23-Dec-2009 - This week, production will start at AkzoNobel’s chelates facility located at the company’s new €275 million multi-site in Ningbo, China. New ethylene amines and ethylene oxide factories are also due to begin production at the site in 2010, followed by an organic peroxides facility. “China is a ...