Reverdia (www.reverdia.com), a joint venture (JV) between Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, The Netherlands; www.dsm.com) and starch-derivatives maker Roquette (Lestrem, France; www.roquette.com), has announced that pivotal patents have been granted to DSM in Europe, Japan and Canada for its innovative yeast-based succinic…
AkzoNobel Performance Coatings (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has announced plans to invest €2.5 million to expand its plant in Cikarang, Indonesia. The investment will add capacity to help meet growing demand for the company’s International brand products, which are supplied…
Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has been awarded a major contract from the Polish chemical group Grupa Azoty to build a polyamide 6 plant. The multiline plant will be built at the company's headquarters in Tarnow, Poland, and will have…
Evonik Industries has developed a new ligand that will help to optimize the production of the plasticizer alcohol 2-propyl heptanol (2-PH) much more efficiently at the Marl site. The new ligand is called OxoPhos 64i; ligands are important components of…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) establish a new production site for thermosetting bulk-molding compounds (BMC) in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China, jointly with Eternal Materials Co., Ltd., a synthetic resin manufacturer based in Taiwan. SDK Group aims to strengthen…
Daelim’s (Seoul, South Korea; www.daelim.co.kr) Petrochemical Business Division announced a plan to expand its highly reactive polybutene plant. The company intends to expand the annual output of its existing plant, which is located at Yeosu National Industrial Complex, from 65,000…
TPC Group Inc. (Houston; www.tpcgrp.com), a leading provider of C4-based products and services, announced the achievement of another significant milestone in its comprehensive expansion program to increase polyisobutylene (PIB) capacity. TPC's board of directors has approved funds for the front-end…
Styrolution Group GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.styrolution.com) is making three appointments to its management board, including two new regional presidents and a newly created position, president of operations. Hyung Tae (HT) Chang, who currently serves as President, Asia Pacific will retire…
Prayon S.A. (Engis, Belgium; www.prayon.com), world leader in phosphate chemistry, will build a manufacturing plant for food-grade sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP) that will double its production capacity and strengthen its position in the food sector. After preliminary studies, the decision was…
Bentley Systems, Inc. (Exton, Pa.; www.bentley.com) announced that it has acquired France-based Acute3D, provider of Smart3DCapture software for reality modeling. Through reality modeling, observations of existing conditions are processed into representations for contextual alignment within design modeling and construction modeling…