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Shell’s Moerdijk Cracker Still Down After Blaze

17.11.2015 - Shell’s cracker at Moerdijk in the Netherlands remains off line following a small compressor fire in a compressor on Nov. 11. The oil and petrochemical group so far has not...

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BASF and Sinopec Inaugurate INA Plant

13.10.2015 - BASF and Sinopec have inaugurated their world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone at Maoming, China. The new 180,000 t/y facility – the...

Markets & Companies

The Future Lies in the Genome

07.10.2015 - Kemal Malik, board member for innovation at the German Bayer Group, sees many similarities in the genetic system of humans, animals and plants. This opens the door for synergies in...

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Solvay Starts Fluoroelastomers Plant in China

29.07.2015 - As part of the ongoing strategic expansion of its site at Changshu in China’s Jiangsu Province Solvay Specialty Polymers has started up a new fluoroelastomers (FKM) plant. The...

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BASF Breaks Ground for China Catalyst Plant

25.06.2015 - BASF has broken ground at its Shanghai Chemical Industry Park site for the German group’s first process catalysts manufacturing facility in Asia-Pacific. The new facility, set to...

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Lanxess Starts New EPDM Rubber Plant in China

14.04.2015 - German chemical producer Lanxess has started production at its new ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM) plant at Changzhou in China's Jiangsu Province. Over the next several...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

HGM Concept for Propane Dehydrogenation Unit

10.04.2015 - Clariant's Heat Generating Material (HGM) for the Catofin process demonstrated excellent performance at the propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant of Ningbo Haiyue New Material Co. in...

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Wacker Starts Constructing New Polysilicon Production Plant

11.04.2011 - On Friday, Wacker Chemie officially started construction work on a fully integrated polysilicon-production site in the U.S. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by numerous...