Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed Kaye Linkenhoger as Sales Manager, North America, for the group’s growing line of K-FLEX® low-VOC, non-phthalate plasticizers and coalescents.
Based on its recent analysis of the European plasticizers market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized chemical company Oxea with the 2014 European Non-Phthalate Plasticizers Product Leadership Award.
The production of key raw materials for Perstorp’s general-purpose PVC plasticizers, valeraldehyde and 2-propylheptanol, and associated chemicals at a major extension to the company’s main plant in Stenugsund, Sweden, has started up on time.
Eastman Chemical Co. has completed a previously announced capacity expansion of its Eastman 168™ non-phthalate plasticizers at the company’s manufacturing facility in Texas City, TX.
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed Shamsi Gravel to be the Vice President of its K-FLEX® line of plasticizers and coalescents.
In order to meet growing customer demand, Oxea is planning to increase its European capacity for Oxsoft GPO (dioctyl terephthalate - DOTP) by 50,000 metric tons by the fourth quarter of 2015.
The chemical company Oxea has successfully increased its capacity by 20 percent for specialty esters at its Amsterdam Esters Plant (AEP) by implementing several optimization measures.