DUSSELDORF, Germany - Degussa AG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the RAG Group, pla ns to construct a major Verbund production (integrated production network) in Shanghai to manufacture methyl methacrylate (MMA) and methacrylate specialties.
MIDLAND, Mich. - Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, announced a $1.6 million debottlenecking project that will add 20 kilo tons (45 million pounds) per annum (KTPA) in allyl chloride manufacturing capacity at its plant in Freeport, Texas.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Alberdingk Boley, Inc., has announced a product name change for all of the MeadWestvaco Specialty Chemicals emulsion polymers that it has acquired.
KINGSPORT, Tenn. - Eastman Chemical Company has appointed Barentz Europe B.V. as its authorized distributor in the Netherlands for coalescents and specialty solvents sold into the coatings and ink markets.
LEVERKUSEN, Germany - Bayer MaterialScience AG is responding to the rapidly growing importance of markets in the Middle East by establishing a new innovation center in Dubai.
MUTTENZ, Switzerland - Clariant has celebrated the inauguration of its new production plant for Licocene® polyolefin-based high-performance polymers in Frankfurt-Höchst, Germany.
Bruchsaler Farbenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, a fourth-generation family-owned producer of inorganic pigments, recently dedicated a new chemical production unit at its location in Bruchsal, Germany.