Dow Advanced Materials, a division of The Dow Chemical Co., has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam for the production of acrylic and styrene-acrylic polymers used in the paint, coatings, construction, packaging, home and personal care industries.
Design engineers, contractors and equipment manufacturers doing business with the U.S. Department of Energy/Nuclear Regulatory Commission (DOE/NRC) can look to Sherwin-Williams for guidance in specifying a full range of nuclear safety-related protective coating and lining systems.
Nubiola has recently expanded its manufacturing capacity of micronized red iron oxides (Nubifer Red 5000 series) by 20 percent in its Girardota (Colombia) production plant.
The Dow Chemical Co. has increased its monopropylene glycol capacity by 15 percent, an additional 35 kilotons per annum (KTA), in the Stade, Germany, plant.
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and INEOS Industries Holdings Limited, Lyndhurst, UK, have announced their intention to combine their global business activities in styrene monomers (SM), polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), styrene-butadiene block copolymers (SBC) and other styrene-based copolymers, as well as copolymer blends, into a new joint venture called Styrolution.
Arkema has announced plans to acquire the Coatings Resins (Cray Valley and Cook Composite Polymers) and Photocure Resins (Sartomer) businesses of Total’s Specialty Chemicals activities for a EUR 550 million enterprise value.
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