Keyword: chemical industry

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Lanxess Central Eastern Europe Sees Sales Increase by 40%

28.03.2013 - Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has not one but two reasons to celebrate. First, Lanxess Central Eastern Europe based in the Slovakian capital Bratislava has now been in...

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BASF Combines Businesses for Water, Oilfield and Mining Solutions

27.03.2013 - BASF will combine its businesses with water solutions and oilfield and mining solutions effective April 1, 2013 The new global business unit will be located in Ludwigshafen...

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Myriant, Bayegan Partner to Commercialize Renewable Chemicals

27.03.2013 - Myriant Corporation, a global renewable chemicals company located in the United States, and Bayegan Group, an international chemical production and trading company headquartered in...

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Wacker Opens Technical Center for Carpet Applications in the USA

27.03.2013 - Wacker Chemie is bringing a new technical center for carpet applications on stream in Dalton, Georgia. It offers lab facilities for developing and testing polymeric binders for the...

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Dow Starts Photovoltaic Film Production in Schkopau

27.03.2013 - Dow's Enlight Polyolefin Encapsulant Film production line in Schkopau, Germany, has been completed and the first commercial quantities have been shipped to customers. Since 2010...

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ICIG Kicks Off €50 Million Investment at PPC in Thann

25.03.2013 - PPC, a company of WeylChem Group, the fine chemicals platform of International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG), has secured bank financing from Commerzbank for the conversion of...

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Weylchem Converts Production at PPC

22.03.2013 - The WeylChem Group, a producer in the fine chemicals market, announces an investment in the production conversion of one of its production plants, Potasse et Produits Chimiques...

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Rockwood to Combine Two Units in Possible $2 Billion Sale

21.03.2013 - Specialty chemicals producer Rockwood is preparing to launch a sale of two units that could fetch more than $2 billion, hoping to benefit from an uptick in the U.S. construction...