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BASF Opens Global R&D Center for Mining in Australia

13.07.2012 - BASF opened its global mining research and development center at the Australian Minerals Research Centre (AMRC) in Perth, WA. At the new facility, BASF scientists will study...

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Poland Could Merge Chemicals Makers to Fend Off Suitors

12.07.2012 - Poland is considering merging two state-controlled chemical makers, Tarnow and Pulawy, Treasury Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski said on Thursday, to fend off bidders and consolidate...

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Wacker Honors Researchers for Novel Dispersion

12.07.2012 - Wacker Chemie bestowed this year's Alexander Wacker Innovation Award on Christian Daniels, John Boylan and Bruce Gruber. The Wacker researchers have developed two novel dispersions...

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DyStar Expands Indigo Production Capacity in Nanjing

12.07.2012 - DyStar and its owner, the Zhejiang Longsheng Group, celebrate 115 years of technical Indigo synthesis at Ludwigshafen, Germany, where the first commercially feasible manufacturing...

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BASF to Expand VFA Capacity in Ludwigshafen

06.07.2012 - BASF is planning to expand the manufacturing plant for vinylformamide (VFA) in Ludwigshafen. In addition, BASF intends to increase the polymerization capacity in Ludwigshafen and...

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Thai PTTGC Plans $11 Billion Capex by 2020

05.07.2012 - Thailand's largest petrochemicals maker PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC) plans to invest $11 billion by 2020 to expand production capacity, with a focus on high-margin speciality and...

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ICL-IP Consolidates in UK & Ireland with IMCD

05.07.2012 - ICL Industrial Products, a producer of brominated, phosphorous and magnesium based flame retardants, is consolidating their product portfolios with IMCD UK & Ireland with effect...

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Evonik to Built New Polyamide 12 Line in Singapore by 2014

05.07.2012 - Following Evonik's initial announcement in 2011, the basic planning for the construction of a 20,000 mt plant for the production of the specialty plastic polyamide 12 (PA12) in...