Elkem has signed an agreement to acquire a brand-new plant near Lyon in France, custom-designed for producing highly specialized organo-functional silicones (OFS).
Greenkote, global provider of advanced anticorrosion metal coatings, has announced a major expansion of production capacity at its headquarters facility in Brook Park, Ohio.
Anaven, a 50-50 joint venture of Nouryon and Indian chemical company Atul, has received environmental clearance from the Indian authorities for the annual production of 32,000 metric tons of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) at its new plant in Gujarat, India.
Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its Chinese polymer activities by investing around $100 million in building two new production plants at its site in Nanjing, China.
OQ Chemicals has successfully completed a recent expansion project at its Oberhausen, Germany, site resulting in a 30% increase in its global production capacity for isononanoic acid.
W. R. Grace & Co., a global leader in specialty silica, announced the opening of its new 8,200-square-meter colloidal silica plant at its European flagship manufacturing and R&D center in Worms, Germany.
Graphene nanotube manufacturer OCSiAl announced the launch of its second synthesis facility for graphene nanotubes with a production capacity of 50 tonnes per year.
