Keyword: Plastics and Polymers
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15.01.2014
- Poised For Growth - American Chemistry rang in the New Year with some cheer. Despite the challenges, the industry managed to post gains in 2013. American Chemistry is now poised...
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09.01.2014
- U.S. plastics compounder and distributor A. Schulman has paid $15.1 million to acquire Prime Colorants, a manufacturer of custom colors and additive concentrates in Franklin...
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08.01.2014
- At the end of December 2013, AkzoNobel sold its Primary Amides business and a manufacturing facility at Kyungju, South Korea, for an undisclosed sum to PMC Group, based at Mount...
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19.12.2013
- Just as workers at Grangemouth thought the worst was over, the mammoth petrochemical complex on Scotland's river Forth has been dealt another low blow. Days before Christmas, Dow...
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13.12.2013
- Reporting on a European Commission green paper and public consultation on plastics waste in the environment launched in March of this year, Janez Potocnik, European commissioner...
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28.11.2013
- BASF has begun offering its first commercial volumes of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) produced from renewable raw material produced with dextrose-based fermentation technology licensed from...
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27.11.2013
- One of Asia's largest chemicals and plastics producers, Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics, is seeking to cash in on the U.S. shale gas boom with its own $2 billion ethane cracker in...
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07.11.2013
- As part of its ongoing effort to curb plastics waste, the European Union is tightening the reins on distribution of disposable carrier bags. On Nov. 4, the European Commission (EC)...
