BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has become the first European manufacturer to have completely switched a production plant for XPS (extruded polystyrene rigid foam) to a new polymeric flame retardant (PolyFR), says the company. Styrodur insulating panels produced at BASF’s…
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) and Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, Md.; www.lockheedmartin.com) have announced the launching of a partnership to explore the establishment of a new joint venture (JV) company in Saudi Arabia to develop carbon nanostructure…
Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) and Fuso Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.fusokk.co.jp) have announced that MCI will transfer its organic acids business to Fuso. The business include production capacity at the Kashima Works facility in Kamisu City, Japan, consisting…
Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com), a global technology and specialty materials company, has announced that it will expand its manufacturing capabilities at its Florence, Kentucky, facility to add compounding process lines to support the continued customer demand for its advanced…
Asahi Kasei’s (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) Fibers division will expand production capacity for polypropylene spunbond nonwovens in Thailand at its subsidiary Asahi Kasei Spunbond (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (AKST). AKST will add a new production line of 20,000 metric tons per year…
Following a successful test phase and promising market analysis, Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.materialscience.bayer.de) plans to invest €15 million in the construction of a production line at its Dormagen site, which will use CO2 to produce a precursor for…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to build a large chemical complex for Turkmengas, in collaboration with Hyundai Engineering Co., Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., and LG International Corp.of Korea. The complex, Toyo’s first project…
NanoH2O (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.nanoh2o.com), a manufacturer of reverse-osmosis (RO) membranes for seawater desalination, announced that it has been acquired by LG Chem (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgchem.com). The sale was finalized April 30, 2014. "We are extremely pleased to…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com) are planning to cooperate in the metallurgical industry and are forming a globally operating complete provider for plants, products and services for the iron, steel and aluminum…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) has been selected as a supplier of sodium chlorate to Klabin's new 1.5 million metric ton pulp mill in Paraná, Brazil. Sodium chlorate is used as a component in the bleaching process, an important process…