Indorama Ventures Public Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire DuPont Teijin Films (DTF), a leading global producer of Biaxially-oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) and Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN) films with total film/polymer…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced that it has increased capacity with the addition of the DSM-AGI Taiwan facility for production of UV curable coatings for its fiber optic materials business. This expansion allows the business to meet increased…
Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com), which recently announced commercial operations of the full chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City II, has appointed Faisal Al-Faqeer of Saudi Aramco as the new Chief Executive Officer. Consistent with this appointment, Dr.…
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…