Dow to Acquire EniChem’s Polyurethanes Business

15-Feb-2001 - The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it has reached an agreement with Italy’s EniChem S.p.A. to acquire its polyurethanes (PU) business. Under terms of the agreement, Dow will divest Union Carbide Corporation’s 50 percent interest in Polimeri Europa, in order to satisfy the European ...

Great Lakes Announces Polymer Additives Leadership Team

24-Jan-2001 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (NYSE:GLK) today announced changes to its Polymer Additives business unit. Angelo Brisimitzakis has been named Vice President and General Manager Flame Retardants. He joins Henri Steinmetz, VP and General Manager Polymer Stabilizers and Jack Teat, VP Global Sales ...

BASF acquires SISAS Group's operations in Feluy, Belgium

08-Jan-2001 - BASF Antwerpen N.V., Belgium, has acquired the activities of the Italian SISAS Group in Feluy, Belgium, as of December 29, 2000. The production includes phthalic anhydride (PA), plasticizers, maleic anhydride, bio-diesel, butanediol as well as butanediol derivates. The deal still has to be ...

DSM invests EUR 100 million in new rubber plant in the Netherlands

Strengthening of worldwide leadership in EPDM rubber

17-Nov-2000 - DSM Elastomers will invest about EUR 100 million in a new plant for the production of EPDM rubber (Keltan®) at its site in Geleen (The Netherlands) with a capacity of 80,000 tons per annum. The plant is to come on stream in the second half of 2002. Detailed engineering is nearing completion, ...

Zeon Chemicals Commercializes Nipol® AR12 Polyacrylate Elastomer

08-Nov-2000 - Zeon Chemicals announced at the 158th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division that it has commercialized a new low-temperature polyacrylate (ACM) elastomer – Nipol® AR12. Polymerized using newly developed curesite technology, Nipol AR12 provides significant improvements in ...

Bayer and DuPont to build new PBT polymer plant

12-Oct-2000 - Geneva and Leverkusen- Bayer and DuPont Engineering Polymers recently concluded the signing of a Letter of Intent ( LOI ) concerning the formation of a manufacturing joint venture to build a new 80,000 ton plant to produce polybutylene terephthalate (PBT ...