As part of its global expansion strategy, Songwon Industrial Ltd. (Ulsan, South Korea; www.songwon.com) has commissioned a second thermoplastic urethane (TPU) production line, to become operational in the fourth quarter of 2017. The company’s plant in Suwon, South Korea will…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was selected by LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) to perform the engineering and procurement for its propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) project located at its Channelview and Bayport complexes outside of Houston.…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of a production site in Denmark which supplies essential pharmaceutical grade salt for the healthcare industry. Located in Mariager, the products supplied by the facility are used as…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels Belgium; www.solvay.com) is expanding its global production capacity in sulfone polymers in India and the United States to address significant demand growth from mainly the medical and water treatment industries for this high-performance thermoplastic material. As part…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) has been working on a one-line production augmentation (5,000 metric tons per year) for the Milastomer product line at its wholly owned domestic subsidiary Sun Alloys Co., in response to an upswing in demand for…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Novgorodskiy GIAP, a subsidiary of Acron Group, for the development of engineering design packages and licensing services for a fertilizers project located in the Smolensk region…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will invest to double the capacity of its Technology Solutions global business unit’s high molecular weight (HMW) hindered amine light stabilizers (HALS) production facility in Willow Island, West Virginia, USA. The core HALS products currently…
Teijin’s Aramid Business (Arnhem, the Netherlands; www.teijinaramid.com) announced the completion of a new production line at its Technora aramid fibers production facility in Matsuyama, Japan. As of now, extra Technora capacity is available for Teijin Aramid’s customers globally. The investment…
Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Oregon; www.agilyx.com) and INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.com) have signed a joint development agreement to develop a recycling process for polystyrene based on “chemical recycling” in the USA. This collaboration is aimed at achieving a…
Owens Corning (Toledo, Ohio; www.owenscorning.com) has announced plans to invest $50 million to rebuild a glass melter and expand production capacity by approximately 25% at its Chambéry, France, composites manufacturing facility. The investment will support the growing demand for thermoplastics…