Tosoh Silica Corp. (Tokyo), a member of the Tosoh Group, recently established a joint venture (JV) with Namhae Chemical Corp. of South Korea. The JV plans to construct a facility to produce silica for use in fuel-efficient tires. Demand for…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo) expanded production lines to produce vinyl ester resin (VE) and synthetic resin emulsion (EM) in the premises of Shanghai Showa Highpolymer Co., Ltd. (SSHP), a Chinese subsidiary of SDK, and has increased production of VE…
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), China's leading energy and chemical company, has successfully installed the world's first and largest slurry-bed residue hydrogenation reactor on June 10 in Zhoushan, China, setting China's new record of highest integral hoisting weight by…
DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany; www.domochemicals.com), a leading producer of high-quality engineering materials for a diverse range of markets, has announced plans to stop and close its third line of biaxally oriented polyamide (BOPA) films from DOMO in Leuna (Germany), effective…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI; Toyko, Japan) and Prime Polymer Co., Ltd. (a join entity owned 65 percent by Mitsui Chemicals and 35 percent by Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.) have launched operations at Mitsui Prime Advanced Composites Europe B.V. (ACE), a…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston) signed an agreement to purchase the assets of NCM (Changshu) Co., Ltd., and Tehe Engineering Plastic (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., located in Changshu Yushan High-tech Industrial Park, one of the major advanced manufacturing parks in the eastern…
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures: For this reason, Endress+Hauser AG (Reinach, Switzerland) has released the Visual Support service application ahead of schedule during the coronavirus crisis. In the acute phase of the pandemic, customers were able to take advantage of…
Worley (North Sydney, Australia) has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering design) contract to develop Avantium’s (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) flagship plant that will support the transition to a bio-based economy for plastics. The plant will produce 100% plant-based FDCA (furandicarboxylic…
As part of its “Helping Hands” initiative, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is not just donating disinfectant and protective face masks. The company is also providing support worldwide to academic research groups in their search for a suitable active ingredient to…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a new contract with POSCO, a leading steel producer in South Korea, to design and build an Air Separation Unit (ASU) which will produce oxygen, nitrogen, and argon and have a production capacity…