The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) held a groundbreaking event to mark the start of construction of a new Chemours Mining Solutions manufacturing facility in the state of Durango, Mexico. This project represents an estimated $150-million investment. Located in the…
DuPont Industrial Biosciences (www.biosciences.dupont.com) has launched extended product lines for Axtra PHY 20000 TPT and Axtra PHY 25000 G fast-acting phytase enzymes in Europe. “We are excited to extend the product line of our award-winning phytase in the EU. Axtra…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it has been awarded the industrial gases supply to support the capacity expansion of the Tianjin facility of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), one of the world’s leading semiconductor foundries and the…
Umicore N.V.’s (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) Precious Metals Chemistry business unit has inaugurated a production unit in Germany for advanced metal organic precursor technologies used in the semiconductor and LED markets — TMGa (Trimethylgallium) and TEGa (Triethylgallium). The inauguration event was…
Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.axaltacs.com) announced its first production and logistics center in Argentina in the municipality of Escobar (province of Buenos Aires). Axalta Chairman and CEO Charlie Shaver met with employees and toured the new facility where initial…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) announced that the company’s Board of Directors has formally approved the final investment decision to proceed with the largest polypropylene (PP) production line in the Americas. Braskem will commit up to $675 million in investment…
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) announced that Peter Cella, president and chief executive officer (CEO), intends to retire from the company, effective August 1, 2017. Additionally, the company announced that Mark Lashier, currently executive vice president,…
NatureWorks (Minnetonka, Minn.; www.natureworksllc.com) has formed a Performance Chemicals Division to supply lactides, polyols, binder resins and chemical intermediates to companies that manufacture C.A.S.E. (coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers), toners and fine chemicals. "The NatureWorks Performance Chemicals Division delivers renewably…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) and Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI; La Jolla, Calif.; www.syntheticgenomics.com) announced a breakthrough in joint research into advanced biofuels involving the modification of an algae strain that more than doubled its oil content without significantly inhibiting…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) put the expanded compounding plant at BASF’s Schwarzheide site in Germany into operation. With the expansion of the plant up to 70,000 metric tons (m.t.) more Ultramid (PA; polyamide) and Ultradur (PBT; polybutylene terephthalate) can…