New high-tech plastics application development center in Hong Kong

20-Apr-2012

LANXESS is strengthening its ties with automotive customers in the growing Asia-Pacific region. The specialty chemicals company will open a new application development center in the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park in the second half of 2012. The new center will have computer aided development ...

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16-Nov-2011

BASF plans to establish the global headquarters of its Dispersions & Pigments division in Hong Kong. As of January 1, 2012, the division head and about 50 global positions, currently located in Ludwigshafen and Basel, will transition to Hong Kong. Transfer of positions will be realized over a ...

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New Role Created to Accelerate Business Growth in the Region

24-Feb-2011

Huntsman Corporation announced the appointment of Anthony P. Hankins, President of the Company's Polyurethanes division, to the new role of Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific. The role has been created to provide leadership and co-ordination of Huntsman's rapidly expanding presence in the ...

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15-Nov-2010

Microscopically porous polymer membranes have numerous applications in microfluidics, where they can act as filters, masks for surface patterning, and even as components in 3D devices in which the perforations in stacked membranes are aligned to form networks of channels for the flow of ...

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19-Oct-2010

GEA Mechanical Equipment has received 2 major orders for the delivery of fuel systems for a gas turbine power plant in Morocco and of decanters for the municipal waste water clarification plant of the mega-zone Hong Kong. For the expansion of the gas turbine power plant “Kenitra” to the north of ...

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12-Aug-2010

Out of sight is not out of mind for a group of Hong Kong researchers who have demonstrated that burying a layer of silver nanoparticles improves the performance of their organic electronic devices without requiring complex processing. Their findings in a report published in the journal Applied ...

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Headcount to increase by at least 5,000

30-Sep-2009

BASF outlined its Strategy 2020 for Asia Pacific. Through 2020, BASF aims to grow on average two percentage points faster than the Asia Pacific chemical market each year. With expected market growth of 4 to 5 percent per year, this would double regional sales by 2020 while earning a premium on ...

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01-Sep-2009

Effective November 1, 2009, Saori Dubourg (38) will be appointed new head of BASF’s division Regional Functions & Country Management Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong. The current division president, Dr. Tilman Krauch (47), will assume responsibility for BASF’s Construction Chemicals division as of ...

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Further increase of market presence in Asia

24-Aug-2009

Brenntag inaugurates a new location in Hong Kong. In addition to the entry into the Asian Pacific market in September 2008, the company further expands its presence in Asia. Henri Néjade, President Brenntag Asia Pacific: “The inauguration of our new Hong Kong location enables us to access to the ...

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Chinese-German team clearly identifies semiconducting nanowires with intrinsic ferromagnetic characteristics

16-Jul-2009

For a Chinese-German research team the "force of attraction" of minute nanowires is not only based on their special scientific interests: Physicists of the Chinese University of Hongkong and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena were able to prove for the first time that cobalt doped nanowires ...

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