IMCD Group, a global specialty chemicals and food ingredients company, has strengthened its position in Asia-Pacific with two major acquisitions in India and Australia.
Orion Engineered Carbons, a global producer of carbon black for the pigment and rubber industries, will construct a fifth production unit for tread blacks at its plant in Yeosu, South Korea.
Swiss-based specialty chemicals company Clariant strengthened its presence in Asia with the opening of its new regional headquarters for Southeast Asia and the Pacific and its new Global Textile Chemicals headquarters, both located in Singapore.
DKSH’s Business Unit Performance Materials and Malaysia-based Master Additives have signed an exclusive agreement under which DKSH will provide sales, marketing, distribution and logistics services to Master Additives to help the company enter and expand into the southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Evonik Industries plans to expand capacities for the specialty polymer polyamide 12. The group is significantly expanding its existing plant in Marl, Germany, and the executive board has approved preliminary and basic planning for a new polyamide 12 production facility in Asia.
