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%.
Evonik has completed the conceptual and basic engineering phase for building its new polyamide 12 production complex on schedule and has now entered the project implementation phase.