Keyword: chemical industry
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24.09.2012
- Wacker Chemie is expanding its production capacity in South Korea for vinyl acetateethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions. The Munich-based chemical group is constructing a new plant...
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20.09.2012
- BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, is to buy U.S. crop protection company Becker Underwood from buyout firm Norwest Equity Partners for $1.02 billion to boost its farming...
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20.09.2012
- Private equity firms Advent International and Rhone Group have emerged as the lead bidders for Cytec Industries's coating resins business that could fetch around $1 billion...
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19.09.2012
- Clariant, a producer of fabric repellency treatments, has increased its capacity to produce next-generation fluorochemicals at its plant in Gendorf, Germany. With an investment of...
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18.09.2012
- With a renewed focus on specialty chemicals and innovation, Arkema, a global chemical company and France's leading chemicals producer, now enters into a new phase in its...
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18.09.2012
- Specialty chemicals company Lanxess demonstrates its expertise in product innovation for synthetic rubber by unveiling its AA concept tire. The concept tire is among the first to...
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18.09.2012
- Solvay announced today a capacity increase of 70% at its Panoli plant, India, for the production of its high performance polymers KetaSpire polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and AvaSpire...
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18.09.2012
- In light of high overcapacities and low margins in some regions, BASF is focusing its global Styropor (EPS: expandable polystyrene) activities on strategic markets and core...
