18.07.2016
- Belgian foam products specialist Recticel has signed an agreement with German engineering plastics producer Covestro – the former Bayer MaterialScience – to use Covestro’s CO2...
22.06.2016
- German engineering plastics producer Covestro has inaugurated its new CO2-to-polyols plant at Dormagen, Germany. The facility that cost €15 million to build will produce 5,000 t of...
21.04.2015
- French industrial gases producer Air Liquide has officially started up its new state-of-the-art Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) in Germany's Chempark Dormagen. The new €100 million...
23.03.2015
- The chemical industry is a booming sector for industrial plant manufacturers. Among other things, the shale gas bonanza in the US is inundating European and especially German...
10.12.2014
- Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has inaugurated its new 300,000 t/y TDI plant at Dormagen, Germany, built at a cost of €250 million. The world-scale facility replaces a smaller...
28.08.2014
- Bayer MaterialScience's research into carbon dioxide as a new raw material for making plastics is delivering further successes. In laboratory tests, the company has succeeded in...
10.03.2010
- Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest roughly €150 million in a new high-tech production plant for TDI (toluene diisocyanate) at Chempark Dormagen. TDI is a precursor for the...
