BASF and SINOPEC will expand the production capacity of neopentylglycol at the Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co. Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China.
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has signed an agreement that will see its Deventer site in the Netherlands transformed into a chemistry and technology innovation hub.
Specialty Polymers Inc. has signed an agreement with Jose Olivieri of Olivieri & Associates to be the company's new sales agent in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and the Caribbean.
European nanodiamond producer Carbodeon has been granted a Chinese patent for its technology that enables detonation-synthesized diamond particles (nanodiamonds) to be combined with polymers for use in fields such as personal electronics, LED lighting, automotive components and machine tools.