Hexpol has announced the completion of the acquisition of Müller Kunststoffe. Müller Kunststoffe will be consolidated as of January 2012 and will be a part ...

Palmer International and BioBased Technologies have agreed to form a strategic alliance focused on developing a new family of bio-based polyols derived from ...

Although the annual accounts for 2011 are still pending, Dr. Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of the Board of Management of Lanxess, dared the statement during the ...

The SPI Society of the Plastics Industry has extended the deadline for submissions to the 2nd International Plastics Design Competition (IPDC).

Eastman Chemical Company and Solutia Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which Eastman will acquire Solutia, a global ...

Chemical product exports, one of the country’s sunniest non-electronics export sectors, are expected to exceed $2 billion this year on back of new investments ...

Rubber traders and farmers support the initiative to integrate three rubber-related state organisations into a single agency for better efficiency.

Omnova Solutions announced a price increase of USD 0.12 per dry pound on styrene butadiene (SB) latex for carpet and related markets, effective 18 February 2012.

Following rising yields from plantations and growing demand from global markets, rubber will receive its own faculty at the Royal University of Agriculture ...

A group of Chinese companies have expressed interest in boosting the rice and rubber production in Sierra Leone's agricultural sector, says the minister of ...

Petron has awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering and procurement contract for a 37,500-b/d delayed coker unit being built as part of the Petron Refinery Master ...

Conglomerate Sime Darby Bhd is acquiring an Indonesian company operating in the forestry industry, PT Indo Sukses Lestari Makmur, through the Malaysia-based ...

Troester GmbH & Co. KG announced that it will – as in previous years – exhibit at Tire Technology Expo 2012, which will take place from 14-16 February in ...

Cancarb Limited and Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH (NRC) have expanded their partnership for the distribution of Cancarb’s Thermax brand thermal carbon black products ...

Rubber prices rose on 24 Jan. 2012 after Thailand, the world's largest producer, approved a plan to buy the material at above-market rates to boost farm incomes ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan and political risk guarantee totaling up to USD 400 million to help build the largest-ever petrochemical ...

Bayer MaterialScience has begun construction of a multi-purpose production plant for PU coating raw materials at Chempark Leverkusen in Germany. The new plant ...

Trelleborg has signed an agreement to divest an operation that manufactures rubber, plastic, and foam components and systems for the light vehicles industry. ...

Eurofoam, the 50/50 joint venture between Recticel and the Austrian group Greiner, announced its decision to streamline its flexible foam operations in Germany ...

Keyuan Petrochemicals Inc. has signed a cooperation agreement with the Fangchenggang City government to build a new acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plant ...

Cambodia's 2011 rubber exports and export prices grew by 55 per cent and 131 per cent respectively, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. The data ...

PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC) plans to invest 100 billion baht over the next five years, half of it on recent acquisition Perstorp Holding France SAS, a ...

Experts say rubber prices are on an upward trend as supply is expected to decline in the coming hot season and the government is confident its new mechanism ...

The Natural Rubber Board has approved spending 17 billion baht to shore up the price of raw rubber sheet to at least 120 baht a kilogramme from 90 baht now, ...

Industry Minister M.S. Hidayat and Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan inaugurated the first ever butadiene plant in Indonesian in Cilegon, Banten, on Wednesday (18 ...

Recticel b.v. has recently announced its intention to streamline its flexible foam operations in the Netherlands by closing its comfort foam converting unit in ...

AkzoNobel plans to strengthen its position in packaging coatings by exercising the right to buy the remaining shares of Metlac, an Italian-based packaging ...

Bayer MaterialScience has commissioned a new technical centre for the development of isocyanate production processes at Chempark Dormagen, Germany. The research ...

BASF today announced that it will build a single-train 300,000 t/y production plant for TDI and expand additional plants for its precursors at its site in ...

Korea's petrochemical companies hope to further increase their exports after they climbed to a record high last year, a local industry group said Friday (13 ...

The government's plan to introduce a pledging scheme to tackle the problem of falling rubber prices will result in huge losses, academics have warned.

Sibur has announced that it has completed the sale of 100% of OAO Sibur-Russian Tyres (SRT) to a group of investors including the management of SRT and Vadim ...

Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. (PetroRabigh) said its Rabigh petrochemical complex is “now fully operational and optimized,” with the successful ...

The Agriculture Ministry has promised to push for changes to the Rubber Aid Fund to allow a portion of it to be used to shore up falling rubber prices.

Japan Butyl Co. (JBC), a joint venture of ExxonMobil Yugen Kaisha and JSR Corp., is increasing halobutyl rubber capacity to 80,000 t/y at Kashima, Japan.

Top Glove Corp Bhd's target of grabbing 30 % of the global rubber gloves market share within the next five years is achievable if it fully utilises its ...

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states are expected to invest $50.3-billion in petrochemical projects over the next five years, increasing total ...

The SCG-Dow Group, a joint venture between Dow and Siam Cement Group, has finalised the start-up of its new propylene oxide (PO) facility in Thailand by ...

AkzoNobel has completed its acquisition of the Chinese speciality surfactant producer, Boxing Oleochemicals. Boxing is a supplier of nitrile amines and ...

BASF and Sinopec have inaugurated the USD 1.4 billion second phase of their integrated petrochemical site in Nanjing, bringing chemicals to the Chinese market ...

Rhein Chemie has opened its new production facility at the Jhagadia site in the Indian state of Gujarat, successfully completing the transfer of production from ...

The Malaysian rubber market is expected to see a better performance in anticipation of limited supply in the commodity, dealers said.

Viet Nam's rubber export value last year reached a record high of US$3.1 billion, with about 800,000 tonnes of rubber exported, according to the Viet Nam Rubber ...

The worst is over for the rubber gloves industry whether a H5N1 bird flu pandemic is declared or not, said OSK Research Sdn Bhd.

Asahi Kasei Chemicals has advanced plans for expanding its solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) capacity and announced its decision to proceed ...

ExxonMobil Yugen Kaisha (EMYK) announced on 19 December 2011 that Japan Butyl Co. Ltd. (JBC) will expand the capacity of its halobutyl rubber manufacturing ...

The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers, Inc. (IISRP) announced that it has elected LCY Chemical Corporation as their newest member.

Baalbaki announced that it has commenced construction of its new 40,000 t/y polyester and prepolymer production plants on its existing 30,000 m² industrial site ...

The Dau Tieng Rubber Corporation of Vietnam will lease 4,739 ha of land for 40 years in Champasak and Salavan provinces of Laos to grow rubber trees.

Italian compounder Api announced that it is in the process of making significant investments in production machinery and R&D infrastructure.

The Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) will be receiving a RM327 million allocation in 2012 to carry out development programmes, ...

DSM Dyneema has announced its decision to close its facility in Flaach, Switzerland.

Huntsman announced on 30 December 2011 that it has acquired EMA Kimya Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., a polyurethanes systems house in Istanbul, Turkey.