Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) has completed a €4 million expansion at a facility in Mahad, India, which will increase organic peroxides production capacity at the site by 80%.
Arkema has successfully started up the 30% capacity extension of its photocure advanced liquid resin production plant in Nansha, located south of Canton, China.
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) will start construction in May on a project to further increase capacity for chloromethanes at its site in Frankfurt, Germany.
Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is expanding its production capacity for the industrial chemical benzyl alcohol for the global market by around 30%.
As the global demand for pentaerythritol (Penta) keeps growing, Perstorp is increasing the effective annual Penta production capacity at its Bruchhausen/Arnsberg plant in Germany by 12.5%.
