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Evonik’s Acrylics Unit Sale May Have Stalled

08.03.2016 - Plans by German specialty chemicals producer Evonik to divest its acrylics business and diversify into higher value-added products appear to have stalled. According to reports, the...

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Evonik Lifts German PA Powders Output

12.02.2016 - Growing demand has spurred German specialty chemicals company Evonik to expand capacity for polyamide 12 (PA12) powders at its Marl site. The additional production line will raise...

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Evonik Invests in Medical Technology Start-up Company

26.01.2016 - Germany’s Evonik has taken a minority share in Finnish start-up company Synoste. Founded in 2012, Synoste is a spin-off from the Aalto University in Espoo with locations in...

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Orion Finally Takes Qingdao Carbon Black

25.01.2016 - Orion Engineered Carbons has completed the takeover of 100% of China-based carbon black producer Qingdao Evonik Chemical Co (QECC). The deal, pending since 2011, included the...

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Evonik and AkzoNobel Start Building Electrolysis Plant

22.01.2016 - Germany’s Evonik and AzkoNobel of the Netherlands have broken ground to start construction of a new membrane electrolysis plant in Ibbenbüren. The two companies set up a 50:50...

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Industrial Biotech Firm Brain Plans IPO

07.01.2016 - In one of the rare stock launches of a German biotechnology company, industrial biotech firm Brain has announced plans to raise a double-digit sum through an initial public...

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Evonik Builds Specialty Copolyester Plant in Germany

04.01.2016 - Evonik has announced plans to build a new specialty copolyester production plant at its site in Witten, Germany. The company said the investment in the facility s scheduled for...

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Evonik Expands China PEEK Capacity

03.11.2015 - Evonik is raising capacity at Changchun, China, for its polyetheretherketone (PEEK) high-performance polymer in order to meet increasing global demand. Capacity details and a...