Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has completed debottlenecking on a reactor brought online in 2014 to optimize output, adding 50 KT of reactor capacity.
The Fire Retardant Additives (FRA) business unit of the Huber Engineered Materials division of J.M. Huber Corp. (Huber) announced a 10% capacity expansion of its Martinal® fine precipitated alumina trihydrate production at its newly acquired Martinswerk Plant in Bergheim, Germany.
The Chemours Co., Wilmington, Delaware, formally inaugurated its new titanium dioxide (TiO2) production line at its Altamira plant in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Heubach is expanding its capacity to produce complex inorganic color pigments (CICPs), marketed under the brand name HEUCODUR®, at its site in Germany.
With demand for high-performance coatings and adhesives growing in Asia, materials manufacturer Covestro is expanding production of the crucial raw material HDI.
The Dow Chemical Co. successfully completed a critical debottlenecking project at its Freeport, TX, facility that increased capacity for glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) by 30 percent annually.
