PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, has donated RMB 900,000 (approximately $145,000) to the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University to help set up a Social Responsibility Research Fund through the Tsinghua University Education Foundation (TUEF).
PPG Industries celebrated the opening of its new automotive OEM (original equipment manufacturer) coatings development and application center in Tianjin, China.
Wacker Chemie AG officially ramped up its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Nanjing site (Jiangsu province, China).
Pump Solutions Group (PSG®), a business unit within Dover Corp. and a leader in the manufacture of positive displacement pumps and related technologies, has opened a new PSG Shanghai Commercial Sales Office in Shanghai, China.
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (MSC), Columbus, OH, a leading manufacturer and supplier of epoxy resins and curing agents, has opened new curing agent manufacturing capabilities at a facility in China.
AkzoNobel has announced its intention to invest a further EUR 65 million in China. The investment will be used to boost capacity and improve operational excellence at AkzoNobel's surface chemistry manufacturing sites in Boxing and Ningbo.
Oxea Advanced Derivatives’ first oxo derivatives plant in Nanjing Industrial Chemical Park, China, has successfully passed the planning stage, and construction is underway.
Cathay Industries Group, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of iron oxide and chrome oxide pigments, is investing in a joint venture with chemical manufacturer Tonghua Group to build a new production plant for yellow, red and black iron oxide pigments in Tongling, Anhui Province, China.
