Articles Tagged with ''capacity expansions''

The Lubrizol Corp., Wickliffe, OH, has launched a new hyperdispersant reactor at its Avon Lake, OH, facility.

Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, announced that the company’s board of directors has approved the plan to add a second benzoic acid purification and finishing process at its facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Sun Chemical will expand its global capacity for the production of Benda-Lutz^® metallic effect pigments designed for autoclaved aerated concrete, printing inks, coatings and plastics by more than 40 percent.

BASF inaugurated its world-scale production complex for acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil.

The Lubrizol Corp.'s Performance Coatings business has added new acrylic emulsion capacity at its manufacturing facility in Antwerp, Belgium.

Evonik Industries, one of the world's leading suppliers of methacrylate chemistry products, doubled its production capacities for VISIOMER^® MAAH (methacrylic anhydride) at its site in Worms, Germany, in 2015.

Officials with U.S. Zinc announced that the company has begun implementation of a project to expand production at its Changshu, China, zinc oxide plant. 

The Lubrizol Corp.'s Performance Coatings business has completed a significant project to expand capacity and increase manufacturing efficiencies at its solvent acrylics production facility in Sant Cugat, Spain.

The Lubrizol Corp.'s Performance Coatings business announced the addition of new hyperdispersant capacity at its Huddersfield, UK, facility.

The Coating Resins business of Arkema has expanded acrylic resin manufacturing capacity in Araçariguama, Brazil by 60 percent.