Crude palm oil (CPO) producer PT Astra Agro Lestari (AALI), part of the PT Astra International conglomerate, will develop a rubber plantation in Indonesia to ...

Supermax Corp. Bhd expects to double its nitrile glove production capacity to 12 billion pieces by 2013, from its current 5.2 billion capacity.

Hexpol has acquired Robbins Holdings, Inc. including Robbins LLC for a price of USD 89.2 million.

On 27 November 2012, BASF celebrated the 20th anniversary of commercial MDI production in Yeosu, Korea.

Albis Plastic GmbH has repositioned itself in Turkey. Having further expanded the product range, customers of the Hamburg based distributor in Turkey can now ...

China was the sixth largest export market for Malaysian rubber products in 2011, valued at 1 billion yuan (about RM544.3 million).

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) plans seriously to expand its investments in China through the implementation of new expansion at the joint venture ...

Kossan Rubber Industries Bhd’s earnings are expected to remain steady at least into the next quarter as latex prices stabilises.

IMCD has entered a distribution partnership with Elastron Kimya for their medical range of TPE-S and TPV compounds. The agreement is valid for all European ...

Cancarb Limited has completed its biannual maintenance programme which included an upgrade of its waste heat recovery power plant, increasing capacity by over ...

Star Thermoplastic Alloys & Rubbers, Inc. has announced that it has opened its 5th laboratory at its headquarters facilities in Broadview, IL, USA. Other labs ...

BASF says it is optimising its organisational structure. The number of segments will be reduced from six to five and the number of divisions from 15 to 14. The ...

Alliance Polymers and Services LLC (APS) announced that by the end of the year it will begin selling proprietary TPVs as well as SEBS compounds. The TPVs will ...

Plastic compound manufacturer Polykemi and Elasto Sweden, the Swedish arm of the Hexpol TPE family have announced plans to cooperate in the field of 2K ...

The Viet Nam Chemical Group (Vinachem) plans to sell off the remainder of its shares in Long Son petrochemical complex next month.

The European Union (EU) has been dumping toluene diisocyanate (TDI) into the Chinese market, China's Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday, 20 November 2012.

The $7 billion petrochemical project being developed jointly by QP and Qapco at Ras Laffan has reached the engineering phase, HE the Minister of Energy and ...

Qatar’s lead role in the global production of low-density polyethylene will get consolidated with the start up of Qapco’s QR2.3 billion LDPE 3, which was ...

JEC’s inaugural composites conferences and show for the Americas, held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center from 7 – 9 November 2012, exceeded the ...

Perstorp AB announced that during the second half of 2012, a new and extended distribution agreement was signed between the company and Grupo M. Cassab.

The US polyurethanes industry achieved a significant job multiplier effect in 2010, with each direct job in the PU industry yielding more than four additional ...

Although giant glove maker Top Glove Bhd would not be able to escape the minimum wage policy, its major capacity share and automation initiatives are expected ...

Die BASF wird europaweit etwa 400 Stellen im Unternehmensbereich Construction Chemicals streichen.

Shell announced that it has taken a final investment decision to ‘debottleneck’ its Singapore ethylene cracker on Pulau Bukom (Bukom Island). This is expected ...

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and Shell announced that they are progressing plans for the expansion of various projects at the Saudi Petrochemical ...

Huntsman has entered into a joint venture agreement with Sinopec Jinling Company, a subsidiary of Sinopec.

Vietnam is likely to surpass Malaysia to become the world’s third biggest rubber producer in the foreseeable future, according to a recent report by the ...

Qatar is expected to invest about $25 billion in its petrochemical sector until 2020 as part of economic diversification, Qatar National Bank (QNB) said in a report.

The first international rubber and tyre industry exhibition to be held in HCM City next April will provide a forum for domestic and foreign firms to compare ...

Qatar’s petrochemical output will get a further boost with the formal inauguration of Qapco’s QR2.3 billion low-density polyethylene plant at Mesaieed on 20 ...

Fifty years after its founding, BASF Polyurethanes GmbH in Lemförde, Germany, has broken ground for a new production complex for thermoplastic polyurethane ...

On 6 November 2012, BASF inaugurated the first BASF Innovation Campus Asia Pacific and its new Greater China headquarters. According to BASF, the EUR 55 million ...

Malaysia is eyeing Myanmar as a possible site for palm oil and rubber plantations and a refinery, a senior Malaysian government minister said last week.

Publicly-listed crude palm oil (CPO) producer PT Astra Agro Lestari (AALI) will expand into rubber and sugarcane plantations, a company official says.

Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company Sibur and Sinopec International, the wholly owned subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation ...

Morroco, China and Brunei are interested in sourcing leaves of rubber trees from Malaysia for their handicraft industries, according to the Rubber Industry ...

The polyurea coatings supplier VersaFlex is moving into a new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Kansas City, KS, USA. The ISO registered company ...