BASF has announced that it will sell its styrene monomer site in Ulsan, Korea, to SK Energy, a South Korean refining company. The contract comprises the plant with a capacity of 320,000 metric tons of styrene monomer per year and the 50,000 square meter site, which is situated within SK’s production...

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A color control system equipped with a high-precision spectral line camera permits – for the first time ever – the on-line color control directly at the plastic pellets.  With this innovative technology, color measurement takes only a few minutes and the results are available for color...

The Lenzing Group acquired a share of 40% in the Indonesian holding PGL (Pura Golden Lion).PGL has been operating the local fiber sales of PT. South Pacific Viscose since the foundation of the latter. Moreover, PGL holds a share of approximately 12% in PT. South Pacific Viscose. The 40% share in PGL...

The durability of POWERSIL® silicone coatings for outdoor insulators is not affected even by many years of continuous use. That is the result of WACKER’s outdoor endurance tests and current lab studies. They show that even after years of outdoor exposure to the elements, POWERSIL® coatings...

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Sabine River Works site manager Mike Sanchez awards a hurricane preparedness grant to Chief Dickie Uzzle of the Bridge City, Texas, Volunteer Fire Department. With the Atlantic hurricane season underway, the Sabine River Works site in Texas is taking steps to help the community prepare. The site recently...

Lucite International's Alpha Technology has been selected by the judges of the ICIS Innovation Awards 2009 to go forward to the final round of judging in the category for Best Product Innovation. All short-listed companies in each of the four categories for innovation will be published in ICIS Chemical...

Agreement is for the supply of Green Polyethylene for manufacturing plastic films Braskem and Acinplas have just signed a partnership for supplying green polyethylene from a 100% renewable source. The resin will be used to manufacture plastic films that will be transformed into a licensed product called...

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Praxair, Inc. reported net income attributable to Praxair and diluted earnings per share of $299 million and 96 cents, respectively, in the second quarter, compared to $349 million and $1.08 in the second quarter of 2008.Reported sales in the second quarter were $2,138 million, 26% below $2,878 million...

Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and OJSC EuroChem Mineral and Chemical Company singed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday. The document was signed by Igor Finogenov, Chairman of the EDB Management Board, and Dmitry Strezhnev, General Director of EuroChem. The document was initiated by EuroChem which...

Within just a few months of entering the market for double-band systems, KraussMaffei is reporting significant sales successes. A customer in Asia has placed an order – worth well over a million euros – for a double-band system 36 metres long with a working width of 1300 mm. KraussMaffei...

Arkema and The Dow Chemical Company have entered into an agreement for Dow to meet FTC required divestitures related to its acquisition of Rohm and Haas Company. This comes ahead of the November 27, 2009 deadline.
 
Arkema will buy a Clear Lake, Texas, acrylic acid and esters plant and...

In order to sustain the growth of the specialty acrylic polymer market in Asia, Arkema announces the construction of a production plant at its Changshu site (China)."This investment of some €15M will provide Coatex, which already has an industrial presence in the United States and in Europe,...

Clondalkin Group, the international producer of flexible and specialist packaging products with 40+ production locations throughout Europe and North America and annual sales in excess of $1.2 billion, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Ohio-based Cleveland Plastic Films ("Cleveland"),...

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The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) today announced that Pierre Brondeau, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dow Advanced Materials, has decided to retire. He will be succeeded by Jerome Peribere, currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Dow AgroSciences. Antonio Galindez, currently...

A short time ago, the new Terblend® N NG-02 EF found one of its first high-volume application at Same Deutz-Fahr Group, the Italian manufacturer of agricultural tractors. The latest glass fiber-reinforced member of the ABS/PA line from BASF has been optimized to provide especially good flowability...

3M has recently announced second-quarter earnings of $1.12 per share on sales of $5.7 billion, with operating income margins of 20.8 percent (a). Sales and per-share earnings declined 15.1 percent and 15.8 percent year-on-year, respectively. On a sequential basis, sales and per-share earnings increased...

Always concerned about the well-being and safety of its customers and users, The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") makes available to the market the UCARSAN® product line, a safe and proven effective sanitizer against several microorganisms that cause a number of diseases, including the Influenza...

Chisso Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) has developed a Super Durable Hard Coat Film with long lasting abrasion-resistance. From July 2009, Chisso will introduce this film such as to Touch Panel industry where long lasting abrasion-resistance is highly demanded.With the increasing demand...

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.(Head Office: Tokyo, Japan) has succeeded in developing two new types of sheet products "Graphite/Resin High Thermal Conductive Sheet (hereinafter "graphite sheet"), in which graphite filler is vertically oriented, and an insulating material named "BN/Resin...

An environmental prize has been awarded to the aluminum producer NordAlu for its waste effluent treatment plant in Germany. The plant was built and developed by Kemira and uses Kemira's patented waste effluent technology. The prize was awarded by the Association for Studies and the Promotion of the...

Sanyo Chemicals has developed a high-performance polymer polyol used as a raw material for producing flexible slabstock polyurethane foams. We are now marketing this new product under the name SHARPFLOW FS-7301.
SHARPFLOW FS-7301 is a polymer polyol having polymer particles obtained by polymerizing...

WACKER, the Munich-based chemical company, will be using the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition to present a new thermoplastic encapsulant for the manufacture of photovoltaic modules. The silicone-based elastic polymer sheet is thermoformable and therefore fast and easy...

Ashland Inc. today announced preliminary results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, the third quarter of its 2009 fiscal year. On Nov. 13, 2008, Ashland completed the acquisition of Hercules Incorporated, which significantly impacted Ashland's reported results. Ashland's results for the June...

The Teijin Group announced today that its polyester fiber subsidiaries Teijin Polyester (Thailand) Limited (TPL) and Teijin (Thailand) Limited (TJT) each received the National Occupation Safety and Health Award 2009 from Thailand's Ministry of Labour on July 2. TPL has now received the award seven...

Afton Chemical Corporation announces the new investment in an Asia Pacific manufacturing facility to better service our customers in the region. This new plant will improve security of supply and provide shorter lead-times with first intent products using cutting edge technology."Afton is investing...

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For several decades, Dr. Erwin Bürkle was a major force for development and progress at KraussMaffei. He also played a key role in forging links between science and industry for the whole plastics industry. In addition to being director of Predevelopment/New Technologies and Future Technology Identification...

The partners of the "Forum Organic Electronics" Excellence Cluster – BASF SE, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG and Darmstadt Technical University – are working at high pressure on the printing technology of the future
Intelligent production processes creating numerous applications...

At the Fakuma 2009, KraussMaffei will be putting the spotlight on its expertise in supplying innovative systems for energy-efficient injection moulding and reaction process machinery with full-integrated robots. An EX 160-1000 Ultra all-electric injection moulding machine will be producing thinwalled...

In September 2009, Krones AG, Neutraubling, Germany, will be delivering its thousandth Variopac packer. Flexible, product-specific, customised packing, grouping containers in a wide choice of sales packs, responsively geared to the market’s requirements and wherever possible with just one single...

Ticona has added two new grades (Hostaform S 9362 and S 9363) to its range of high-impact Hostaform acetal copolymers (POM). Like Hostaform
S 9364 launched in 2008, the new grades offer higher performance than the previous, conventionally impact-modified POM grades and meet today’s increasingly...

SABIC Innovative Plastics is once again driving forward the development of eco-progressive materials as the race to replace finite resources, like petroleum with more impactful eco technologies, continues to accelerate. In its latest move, the company is helping customers create new sustainable solutions...

Air Liquide announces the start-up of two very large Air Separation Units (ASU), producing together 4,000 tonnes of gaseous oxygen per day.
Air Liquide announces the start-up of two very large Air Separation Units (ASU), producing together 4,000 tonnes of gaseous oxygen per day, to supply oxygen,...