Evonik consolidates production: Hamburg and Bitterfeld to be closed

Operations will continue at larger German sites

14-Sep-2026 - Evonik plans to close two smaller sites in Germany by next year. At the company’s Hamburg site, around 50 employees currently supply products for the cosmetics and personal care industry. In Bitterfeld, around 40 employees produce chlorosilanes. These businesses will continue, concentrated mainly ...

Chemical plant closures rate surges six-fold in Europe since 2022

"It’s no longer a question of being five minutes before or after twelve. The sector is under severe stress and breaking"

29-Jan-2026 - A new report shows that chemical plant closures in Europe, has surged sixfold since 2022, reaching a cumulative 37 Mt of capacity – or around 9% of European production capacity – and resulting in the loss of 20,000 direct jobs in the chemical industry. The report also reveals a sharp slowdown in ...

Haltermann Carless completes divestment of production site in USA

Focus on hydrocarbons and new technologies

15-Jan-2026 - Haltermann Carless has completed the divestment of its manufacturing facility in Manvel, Texas, USA. The site has been decommissioned and transferred to the new owner. The transaction was completed at the end of 2025. This divestment is part of the company's RACE transformation programme, which ...

Dow will shut down three upstream European assets

Reducing merchant sale exposure, and removing higher-cost, energy-intensive assets

10-Jul-2025 - Dowopens in a new tab announced that, as a follow-up to the European asset actions first announced in April 2025, its Board of Directors has approved the shutdown of three upstream assets in Europe, in addition to certain corporate and other assets across the Company's global asset ...

Evonik reorganizes its polyamide business

10-May-2019 - The specialty chemicals company has already begun construction of a new polyamide 12 (PA 12) facility complex and is expanding its production of transparent polyamides at the Marl Chemical Park, and, in so doing, is concentrating its activities on high-performance materials for attractive growth ...

Evonik to close its Kaba site in Hungary

09-Apr-2018 - Evonik will stop its amino acid production at its Hungarian Kaba site by the end of April 2018. There Evonik Agroferm Zrt., a subsidiary of Evonik, currently employs about 120 people. The decision was prompted by intense and increasing competition in the market for the amino acid L-threonine, ...

Covestro continues MDI production in Tarragona

Closure of production facility suspended

17-Mar-2017 - Materials manufacturer Covestro has resolved to continue manufacturing the rigid foam precursor MDI in Tarragona (Spain). The plant closure that had originally been planned for the end of 2017 has been suspended for the time being. The main reason for this decision was the significant increase in ...

BASF realigns caprolactam production in Europe

Four production plants in Ludwigshafen to be fully or partially closed

13-Sep-2016 - BASF is realigning its caprolactam production in Europe and will gradually reduce capacity by 100,000 metric tons to 400,000 metric tons over the next 18 months. In Ludwigshafen, parts of the caprolactam production as well as plants producing the precursors anolone and oleum will be ...

Chemours Consolidates and Strengthens TiO2 Business

24-Aug-2015 - The Chemours Company announced two decisions that are elements of the company's five-point transformation plan. The company will close its Edge Moor manufacturing site located outside Wilmington, Delaware, which produces titanium dioxide (TiO2) and will shut down a TiO2 line (line 3) at its ...

BASF increases ammonium carbonate capacity

19-Apr-2012 - BASF is increasing the production capacity of its ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbonate plant at Ludwigshafen by 30% in a move designed to cope with rising demand for high-purity food additives on the world market. The upgrade is scheduled to be complete by early 2013. "With our technical ...