Keyword: Plastics & Polymers

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Croda Acquires Arizona Chemical's Specialty Products Business

29.07.2013 - Croda International has acquired Arizona Chemical's specialty products business in Jacksonville, Florida. The acquisition brings Croda a portfolio of oil gelling polymers, further...

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Boosting Global Expansion

13.05.2013 - Business - Shell Chemicals held a ground-breaking ceremony last month for the building of facilities for making high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) and ethoxylates at its site in...

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Wacker Starts Up New Production Plant for Dispersions in China

22.04.2013 - Today, Wacker Chemie officially ramped up its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Nanjing site (Jiangsu province, China). With the...

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Science Driven By the Market

22.02.2013 - When new company chieftains say they want to be a catalyst for change, many listeners brush it off as a tired cliché. Patrick Thomas is proof that it needn't be. Stepping into his...

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Solvay Increases Global Derivatized Guar Production

11.02.2013 - Solvay announced that it has finalized plans to increase its global derivatized guar production by 40% with the completion of recent expansions in the USA and China. Derivatized...

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HaloPolymer Joined Plastics Europe

31.01.2013 - HaloPolymer Holding has become a member of Plastics Europe association - the only trade association in Europe which develops and assists in the practical implementation of legal...

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Bayer Opens Polymer Development Center in South Korea

10.01.2013 - Bayer MaterialScience, a subgroup of the Bayer Group and world leading materials provider, has officially opened its first Polymer Development & Technology Center in South Korea...

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Arkema, NatureWorks Launch Marketing Collaboration

08.01.2013 - Altuglas International, a subsidiary of Arkema, with its Plexiglas and Altuglas acrylic resins (Americas and Rest of World, respectively) and NatureWorks, a leader in the bio...