The independent tyre service and sales company Preventative Tire Maintenance Group, Ltd. in Mansfield, TX, USA, announced that it will specialise solely in ...

Bridgestone Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. will establish a new technical centre in Thailand.

Zeon has announced plans to increase production capacity for HyTemp acrylic rubber at its Kentucky plant.

Reverdia, a joint venture between DSM and Roquette, and Helm have signed an agreement for the European distribution and joint market development of Reverdia’s ...

For 2012 Lanxess reported a satisfactory result, as Chairman of the Board A. Heitmann at the annual prelude conference announced recently. The turnover of ...

Nylon producer Invista and bio­technology firm LanzaTech have agreed on the joint development of bio-based butadiene.

Borouge, in line with its plan to increase its polyolefin production capacity to 4.5-million t/y by 2014, will open a representative office in Jakarta, ...

LG Chem, of South Korea, is planning to build an ethylene production plant in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, in collaboration with two other Kazakh firms, with production ...

Shell has announced its latest investment decision to upgrade its Singapore production facility for polyols, used in the manufacture of foams in furniture, ...

An analytical study released by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, or MoFT, has revealed that UAE exports of plastics grew by 127 %, or USD 2.2 billion, from the ...

Daibochi Plastic and Packaging Industry Bhd will spend RM45 million over the next three years to build a new manufacturing plant.

Johnson Controls manufactures complete seats for the new Fiat 500L in a new just-in-time plant in Kragujevac, Serbia. The company also supplies complete ...

The Viet Nam National Chemical Group (Vinachem) was reported to have sold 10 per cent of Da Nang Rubber Co (DRC) to a Japanese partner.

Gajah Tunggal, Indonesia’s largest tire manufacturer, announced on 8 Feb. 2013 that it had completed a $500 million bond sale, the bulk of which will be used to ...

China's petrochemical industry saw steady growth in total output in 2012, but profits dropped from a year earlier due to weak demand, the country's top economic ...

The new Chief Executive Officer of LG Chem, Park Jin-soo, has said the company won’t slash any investments this year, although he expects a tough year ahead due ...

The California Government, Dept. of Consumer Affairs, has released a new draft of its nearly 40 year old furniture flammability standard. TB 117-2013 will have ...

BioAmber will be the supplier of bio-based succinic acid to a Faurecia-Mitsubishi Chemical partnership for the production of automotive plastics.

Sibur has established a new centre for synthetic rubber research and development in Voronezh. Previously, R&D in the field of synthetic rubbers used to be ...

Bridgestone announced that its Hungarian subsidiary Bridgestone Tatabánya Termelö Kft. will increase the production ­capacity for its passenger car radial tyres ...

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has completed the acquisition of American Fluoroseal Corporation (AFC), a manu­facturer of fluorinated ethylene propylene bags ...

Dätwyler Holding Inc. will combine the present Sealing Technologies and Pharma Packaging divisions to form the new Sealing Solutions division. The logic behind ...

Saudi Arabia is the most prominent producer in the global petrochemical industry. The Kingdom holds approximately one-fifth of the world’s proven oil reserves, ...

Lanxess recently informed about the results of an extensive study about the global S-SBR markets. It features findings based on the opinions of decision-makers ...

PolyOne has acquired Glasforms, Inc., a manufacturer of glass and carbon fibre-reinforced polymers and composite products.

Moscow-based Albis Plastic OOO, a fully owned subsidiary of German company Albis Plastic GmbH located in Hamburg, has expanded its product portfolio for the ...

Amyris, Inc. announced the first commercial shipment from its new plant in Brazil. The company's first purpose-built industrial fermentation facility produces ...

Recticel Automobilsysteme GmbH, a fully owned subsidiary of the Recticel group, announced its intention to restructure its production operations in ...

Perstorp announced that during Q4/2012, a new and extended distribution agreement was signed between the company and Milano Colori for the sales of Perstorp’s ...

The Swiss distribution and service company IMPAG with headquarters in Zurich has started a cooperation with the Stockelsdorf-based German company Altropol ...

The Stock Exchange of Thailand-listed PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC), Thailand's largest petrochemical producer, plans a major upgrade to its chemical business ...

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has set tariff value for imported tyres of motor cars and three-wheelers to prevent duty evasion through under-invoicing.

PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC), Thailand's biggest petrochemical maker, will spend nearly 200 billion baht through 2017 on expansion and greater efficiency.

Sadara Chemical Co. partners Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco) and Dow Chemical expect to complete financing arrangements this year for their $20-billion joint ...

Qatar Holding LLC, a unit of the Qatar Investment Authority, is considering investing about $5-billion in Malaysian petrochemical projects over the next five ...

The $10 million (Dh36.78 million) Emirates Fibre plant, which produces polyester fibre, launched on Thursday (31 Jan. 2013) with the aim of supplying the local ...

Hankook Tire, South Korea’s biggest tire maker, posted record global sales in 2012, thanks to brisk sales of its premium tires to luxury automobile ...

A new Cannon factory in Caronno Pertusella, north of Milano, Italy, designed for the assembly of large manufacturing plants for polyurethane and composites ...

The Ministry of Climate Change has imposed a ban on production, sale and import of polythene bags within the limits of Islamabad, the capital, with effect from ...

Magsaysay, a third-class municipality east of its more famous neighbor Digos City, is turning to rubber trees to mitigate erosion and landslides for its hilly ...