Keyword: Plastics and Polymers

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GF Biochemicals Starts Worldscale Levulinic Acid Unit

03.08.2015 - At Caserta, Italy, GFBiochemicals has brought a 10,000 t/y worldscale plant for levulinic acid, claimed to be world’s largest and the first to produce the bioplastics feedstock...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

A Whole New Range of New Services

24.07.2015 - The WeylChem Group of Companies is part of the International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG). Thanks to the combination of the large scale essential chemical production units...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

A Day at the Races

10.07.2015 - On Friday, July 3rd 2015 Wiley-VCH editors Michael Reubold, Martin Friedrich, Roy Fox and I were hosted by chemical company Evonik at the Hockenheim Ring to attend the DMV Gran...

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Christophe Villain appointed Managing Director of Arkema’s Fluorogas business

22.06.2015 - Christophe Villain is being appointed Managing Director of the Fluorogas business unit of French chemical manufacturer Arkema effective 1st July 2015. Villain is a graduate of...

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China Joins Clean Sweep Scheme

14.06.2015 - The China Plastics Processing Industry Association CPPIA has joined nearly 20 other international trade organizations in Operation Clean Sweep (OCS), an initiative aimed at...

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EU Approves Ineos-Solvay JV Inovyn

10.06.2015 - The European Commission has given its final approval to the merger of the Ineos and Solvay vinyls activities into a 50:50 joint venture called Inovyn. With headquarters in London...

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Bayer MaterialScience on Track to Make Polyols from CO2

08.06.2015 - Bayer MaterialScience (BMS), soon to be renamed Covestro, is entering what its management calls the “home stretch” of its Dream Production project, which foresees the manufacture...

Markets & Companies

European Plastics Market Struggles with Supply Shortage

08.06.2015 - Until recently, most chemical players outside the petrochemicals segment may have taken scant notice of the vast upheaval sweeping the upstream petrochemical and plastics...