Groundbreaking ceremony for a new Bayer polycarbonate plant at Caojing, Shanghai

27-Nov-2003 - With a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new polycarbonate plant at Caojing, Shanghai, Bayer expands its activities in China. The company is investing around 450 million US dollars in this world-scale production complex which will produce the high-tech plastic Makrolon®. This ...

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation Will Cease Production of Penta-PBDE Flame Retardant by End of 2004

04-Nov-2003 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation announced that it will voluntarily cease production of two widely-used flame retardant chemicals, penta- and octa- polybrominated diphenyl ether, by the end of 2004. Great Lakes will replace Penta-PBDE with a new product called Firemaster® 550. The voluntary ...

Great Lakes Further Expands Range of Flame Retardants for Flexible Polyurethane Foam

13-Oct-2003 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation launched Firemaster® 552, a new high performance flame retardant for mechanically cooled, flexible polyurethane foams, at the Polyurethane Expo 2003 (Booth 511) held in Orlando, Florida on October 1-3, 2003. Firemaster 552, a phosphorus-bromine flame retardant ...

Dynea opens third new plant in Asia within a year

26-Aug-2003 - Dynea has inaugurated a new adhesive plant in Surabaya, Pasuruan, Indonesia. The Pasuruan unit is the third new Dynea plant opened in Asia within a year, following the new plants in Shanghai, China and Krabi, Thailand. A fourth plant producing both adhesive resins and paper overlays in Guangdong, ...

Asian center for high performance coating raw materials

Bayer Polymers plans large-scale investments at its Caojing, China, site

12-Aug-2003 - Bayer Polymers plans to expand its Caojing site near Shanghai, China, making it Bayer Polymers' most important production facility for coating raw materials in the Asia Pacific region. Production plants for aliphatic and aromatic polyisocyanates as well as the monomer hexamethylene diisocyanate ...

Akzo Nobel completes divestment of Casco Impregnated Papers

09-Jul-2003 - Akzo Nobel and Deutsche Beteiligungs AG and Harvest Partners Inc. have closed the deal concerning the divestment of Akzo Nobel's Impregnated Papers business. Taking into account certain adjustments, a cash and debt free amount of EUR 112 million was involved in the transaction. "This is another ...

Albemarle Corporation to acquire phosphorus flame retardants in agreement with Rhodia SA

19-Jun-2003 - Albemarle Corporation and Rhodia SA have reached an agreement for Albemarle to acquire Rhodia's global organo-phosphorus and ammonium polyphosphate flame retardants business for applications in rigid and flexible polyurethane foams. Annual global revenue for these products is approximately $65 ...

Bayer Chemicals: A new plasticizer joins the polymer additive range

17-Jun-2003 - Bayer Chemicals, has added a new polymeric plasticizer to its polymer additive range. The innovative trial product Ultramoll® VP SP 51022 was developed for the rubber-processing industry, for use in applications such as the manufacture of NBR-based printing rollers. The plasticizer helps to ...

Shell's new polymer polyols plant at Pernis now on-stream

13-Jun-2003 - Shell Nederland Chemie (SNC) BV's new polymer polyols plant at Pernis in the Netherlands came on stream in late May with the first commercial product expected to be available later this summer. The plant, one of the largest of its kind in Europe, will produce 50,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of ...

Akzo Nobel to Divest Impregnated Papers Business

28-May-2003 - Akzo Nobel announced today its intention to divest its Impregnated Papers business to Deutsche Beteiligungs AG and Harvest Partners Inc. for EUR 114 million. Akzo Nobel expects the transaction to be concluded by the end of June 2003. "Although Casco Impregnated Papers improved its performance ...