As part of its strategy to expand the company's application portfolio, Germany-based OQ Chemicals has mechanically completed the expansion of its US plant in Bay City, Texas, for the production of high-purity propionaldehyde.
Röhm expands its presence for MMA (Methyl Methacrylate) and PMMA (Polymethyl Methacrylate) production in Asia. China, as the world's largest market for these products, represents a prime opportunity for Röhm's specialized innovations. This development represents a pivotal point in the company's broader expansion efforts.
German PMMA specialist Röhm has signed a final agreement to acquire SABIC’s Functional form business, which makes high-end polycarbonate film and sheet.
PMMA specialist Röhm plans to acquire SABIC’s polycarbonate-based Functional Forms business in a deal due to close in H1 2024. The company said the buy is key to its strategy to advance its transparent semi-finished products business into a leading multi-polymer global player.
Together with compatriot project partner OQ Chemicals, Germany’s Röhm has broken ground on a new world-scale methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant it is building at OQ Chemicals’ Bay City, Texas site.
Germany-based OQ Chemicals, the former Oxea, has made a final investment decision to add capacity for propionic aldehyde and production infrastructure to support a new 250,000 t/y methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant being built by German acrylics specialist Röhm at OQ’s US site in Bay City, Texas.
Germany’s Röhm has begun construction of a capacity expansion in China for its Plexiglas polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) molding compounds. A groundbreaking ceremony took place at the Shanghai site on Jul. 18 and the expanded plant is due to start operating by the second quarter of 2023.
German methaycrylates specialist Röhm recently broke ground on a new state-of-the-art innovation center at Worms, Germany. The new facility, which will employ around 100 scientists, is designed to further expand its technology leadership, the company said.
Röhm has announced plans to spend a double-digit million euro sum to expand capacity in China for its Plexiglas polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) molding compounds. The company said the dynamic economic development of Asia’s automotive and lighting industries were key drivers for the expansion at its site in Shanghai, which will go on stream in the second quarter of 2023.
