Effective 1 March 2012, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices in Europe, Africa and Western Asia for polymer dispersions by 80 EUR per tonne and ...

A delegation representing 10 French companies will travel to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 28 Feb. – 2 March 2012 to examine the plastics and packing ...

Lanxess will increase its prices worldwide for its Baypren branded chloroprene rubbers by up to EUR 160 / USD 210 per tonne effective 1 March 2012.

The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) has signed a TDI and MDI technology license agreement with Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. Under the agreement, Mitsui ...

A shortage of rubber to meet the required rubber production and an increasing demand for natural rubber had led the Rubber Development Department (RDD) to ...

Unofficial, small border trade transactions continue to flourish in Vietnam's rubber export to China although their number has fallen recently, industry ...

Bayer MaterialScience can begin construction in Dormagen, Germany, of its new EUR 150 million world-scale TDI plant. According to the company, the Cologne ...

Sibur and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) have agreed to form a joint venture named Reliance Sibur Elastomers Pvt. Ltd. to produce 100,000 t/y of butyl rubber ...

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies is investigating whether to sell the business of precision moulding parts for brake systems to ContiTech Vibration Control GmbH.

The growth outlook for Saudi petrochemical companies is healthy, despite the lingering uncertainties in the global economy. Though product prices are at ...

In November 2011 a new pan-European distributor has started market activities: Dreyplas GmbH, based in Meerbusch, Germany. The company’s diversified portfolio ...

PDA, the Association for High Performance Elastomeric Technologies, announced its 2012 Annual Conference and Exposition is showing significant growth compared ...

The current upward trend in natural rubber prices will continue to sustain over the long-term, says Rubber Industry Smallholder Development Authority (RISDA) ...

Saudi Arabia’s Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu has approved five large petrochemical projects to be built in Jubail and costing SR 21.2 billion (USD 5.6 ...

Zhong Tian He Chuang Energy Co., a joint venture between Sinopec and China Coal Group, plans to build a polypropylene (PP) plant in Ordos, China, based on Ineos ...

Zorge has recently increased its production capacity in Hungary to meet the growing demand for rubber parts.

Effective from 1 January 2012, IMCD Group B. V. distributes Arizona Chemical’s refinery product lines in Western Europe.

On 23 December 2011, the extrusion systems supplier Davis-Standard, LLC was sold by Hamil­ton Robinson Capital Partners to Oncap, the middle market investing ...

BASF is participating with USD 30 million through BASF Biorenewable Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG in the US technology firm Renmatix Inc., in Philadelphia, PA.

Lanxess has acquired Unitex Chemical Corporation located in Greensboro, NC, USA. Unitex has about 40 employees and achieved sales of about USD 30 million in 2010.

Bekaert has announced a reduction of 1,850 jobs in its sawing wires and stainless steel wire operations. The measures affect a total of 600 jobs in Aalter, ...

In the fourth quarter of 2011, Perstorp has agreed on a strengthened cooperation with the Hamburg-based German chemical distributor Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH (NRC).

On 15 February 2012, Huntsman held a ground-breaking ceremony for its new Asia Pacific Technology Center (ATC) in Shanghai's Minhang Economic & Technological ...

LG Chem Ltd., Korea's leading chemical maker, said Thursday it has won an elastic polymer patent lawsuit against Dow Chemical Co. of the United States.

The 75th anniversary of the invention of polyurethane gives the Kürten-based German manufacturer of colour pastes and speciality lacquers for the PU industry, ...

Effective 1 January 2012, Cooper Standard has acquired the automotive sealing business of Sigit S.p.A., operated primarily from manufacturing locations in ...

Rubber trading rebounded significantly for the past few weeks after a long period of stagnation thanks to rising demand and restricted supply on the global ...

Despite rising prices, the government sees the newly established 15-billion-baht fund to intervene in the rubber market as essential for stabilising prices.

Honam Petrochemical Corp. has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia’s Krakatau Steel for land in Cilegon on which Honam plans to build a new ...

PetroVietnam, Vinachem, Qatar Petroleum International, Siam Cement Group (SCG) and Thai Plastic and Chemicals have signed a joint venture agreement to invest in ...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released general details on the country’s new five-year plan (2011-2015), including ...

For the second time in four years, Polyurethane Process Industries, LLC, (PPI) is moving to larger quarters to accommodate the needs of its growing customer base.

Trelleborg and Freudenberg have agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture to produce antivibration solutions for light and heavy vehicles.

Bradbury Group Australia (BGA) is set to deliver a second continuous panel laminating system to Georgia-based Precision Foam Fabricators (PFF), a manufactuer of ...

The clean, new design gives www.polyurethane.org the same look and feel of the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) main site, which makes it easier for visitors ...

Ras Laffan will be home to a USD 5.5 billion world-scale stream cracker petrochemical complex by 2018.

The German Pallmann Group, a developer and producer of size reduction technologies, has formed a partnership with the Spanish tyre recycler GMN.

On 2 January 2012 the Dätwyler Group completed the acquisition of the Profiles Division of Phoenix Dichtungstechnik GmbH, Hamburg.

Synthomer has announced a further MYR 110 million (~EUR 27.1 million) investment to expand its Pasir Gudang nitrile latex facilities, creating, according to its ...

Japan Butyl Co. Ltd. (JBC), a 50/50 joint venture between JSR Corporation and ExxonMobil Yugen Kaisha (EMYK), will expand the capacity of its halobutyl rubber ...

The Japanese company JSR Corporation has completed a 25,000 t/y S-SBR capacity expansion at its Yokkaichi plant, bringing the total capacity to 60,000 t/y.

Wittenburg BV recently announced the opening of its new state-of-the art production facility and R&D centre in Zeewolde, The Netherlands. The company said that ...

PolyOne GLS has announced the appointment of Velox GmbH from Hamburg, Germany, as a distributor of its products in Western Europe. Velox is the first European ...

Asahi Kasei Chemicals has decided to construct a second S-SBR plant with a capacity of 50,000 t/y in Singapore.

Trelleborg is making organisational changes in order to further strengthen and focus the group. Trelleborg Automotive will be focused on antivibration ...

Lanxess announced a price increase for its Baypren branded Chloroprene business line of up to EUR 180/USD 240 per tonne on a global basis.

Johnson Controls announced it has formed a development relationship with luxury mattress manufacturer Harrison Spinks to integrate pocketed coil spring mattress ...

LyondellBasell’s Lupotech T process technology has been selected by Samsung Total Petrochemicals for a new low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and ethylene vinyl ...

Bridgestone Tyre Manufacturing Vietnam, an affiliate of Japan's Bridgestone Corporation, on 1 Feb. was granted an Investment Certificate to build a car tyre ...

A total of 11,238 smallholders in Sarawak have applied to plant rubber as a new crop and undertake replanting in 24,197 hectares with high-yield clones.

Kuwait’s Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) is still planning to build its Olefins III complex and will cooperate with Equate to carry out the project, the ...

LyondellBasell says it has granted Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yanan Energy and Chemical a Hostalen ACP (Advanced Cascade Process) technology license for a new ...

The Rubber Development Department (RDD) in collaboration with Sri Lanka Treasury have extended the "rubber new planting and re-planting state subsidy" for this ...

LG Chem, Korea’s largest chemical firm, plans to make a record investment this year as it sees an upturn in its business.