capacity expansion

Clariant Expands Production Capacities in Daya Bay

Clariant successfully completes its CHF 100 million investment in the Daya Bay plant in China, with the second production line becoming fully operational in November.

Nouryon Completes Expansion for Organic Peroxides in China

Dutch specialty chemicals producer Nouryon has completed the capacity expansion for organic peroxides at its manufacturing facility in Ningbo, China. The expansion doubled production capacity to 6,000 tons of organic peroxide products each, which are sold under the Perkadox 14 and Trigonox 101 brands.

Asahi Kasei to Increase Lithium-Ion Battery Separator Coating Capacity

Asahi Kasei will invest in new coating equipment for Hipore lithium-ion battery separators in its US, Japan, and South Korea facilities, starting in the first half of fiscal year 2026. The increased capacity will provide coated separators for batteries powering up to 1.7 million electric vehicles.

AGC Biologics Completes Expansion at Milan Site

AGC Biologics, a biopharma CDMO, has completed the expansion of its manufacturing capacity at the company’s Cell & Gene Center of Excellence in Milan, Italy.

Finnish CDMO Biovian Expands its Facility in Turku

Finnish contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Biovian, specializing in biopharmaceuticals, is investing more than €50 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Turku, Finland.

Braskem Expands its Brazilian Biopolymer Production Plant

Braskem has completed the expansion of production capacity for its biobased ethylene plant in the petrochemical complex of Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

CordenPharma Expands at US Site in Colorado

CordenPharma is expanding strategically into synthetic oligonucleotide manufacturing at its plant at Boulder in the US state of Colorado. The two-phase investment is designed to provide innovative biotech and pharma customers with a fully integrated API to Drug Product service offering.

WuXi STA Expands Capabilities at Changzhou Campus

WuXi STA has added two reactors at its Changzhou campus in China, enhancing capacity and capability at its TIDES contract research, development and manufacturing platform for oligonucleotide, peptide and related synthetic conjugates. The reactors have capacity of 2,000 liters each, taking total volume for solid-phase peptide synthesizers to more than 10,000 liters.

Nouryon Doubles Dicumyl Peroxide in China

Shintech Builds VCM/PVC Complex in USA

Perstorp proceeds with UK Caprolactone Upgrad

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Supports ABL Europe in Viral Vector GMP Capacity Expansion

Catalent Completes Expansion at Singapore Facility

Trinseo Opens Pilot Plant, Raises S-SBR Capacity at German Site

Emerald Kalama Chemical Brings $40 Million Expansion Online

Sibur Plans Plasticizer Plant in Perm, Russia

Kemira Expands Sizing Agents in China

Lubrizol Hikes Drug Product Manufacturing Capacity

Novamont Starts Renewable BDO Plant

Aesica Expands UK Development Capacity

Teijin Expands Capacity for Technora Fiber

Sabuco Butanol Unit Ready to Go at Jubail

Chevron Phillips Expands Texas PAO Plant

Kemira Adds Sodium Chlorate Line at Joutseno

Evonik Begins Silicones Project in China

Ineos Plans More Ethylene at Chocolate Bayou

Freeport Chosen for MEGlobal’s US Plant

BASF Petronas Breaks Ground on Malaysian HR-PIB Plant

Dottikon Boosts Swiss API Capacities

Evonik Starts Work on Singapore Methionine Plant

Evonik Expands Austrian Membranes Capacity

Clariant Expands Global Masterbatch Capacity

Momentive Expands Silanes Capacity in Germany

Sika Expands Asian Presence

Solenis to Expand Capacity in Russia