Honeywell International Inc. has announced plans to invest more than USD 200 million in new manufacturing projects at four sites in Louisiana including the ...

15 September 2013 is the deadline for submitting proposals for technical presentation requests and abstracts for the 7 November 2013 Polyurethane Foam ...

Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (MPM) has recently announced investments to support its Niax polyurethane additives product line, adding manufacturing ...

Sibur announced on 19 August that it has launched production of styrene-butadiene thermoplastic elastomers at its Voronezh-based facility. The production ...

Sarawak has great potential to become a major rubber producer in the country but surprisingly it is among the states that produce the lowest volume of the ...

The government has proposed a 30-billion baht budget to shore up rubber prices and promote sustainable growth for the ailing rubber industry in the long run.

Kotagala Plantation, a unit of Lankem Ceylon PLC, of Sri Lanka, has decided to develop a 15,000 hectare rubber plantation in Cambodia.

The German Frimo Group GmbH announced it would like to give its customers and business partners the opportunity to “experience PUR with Frimo”, so the company ...

Sibur and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) have established a joint venture to produce nitrile butadiene rubbers (NBR) on the site of Sibur’s ...

Foster Wheeler has received a contract from Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd. (NSRP) to provide project management and consultancy (PMC) services for a ...

Petronas has further delayed a final investment decision and the start of production on its $19-billion Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development ...

Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, and Tasnee, one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Saudi Arabia, have signed an agreement to establish ...

Advanced Petrochemical Co. has signed an agreement with Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemicals (Satorp) that increases and extends a propylene supply ...

In May 2013 the Polish-Dutch injection moulding specialist Bianor, based in Bialystok, Poland, opened a new production site in Ploiesti, Romania. The company ...

The following declaration has been received from Wanhua Chemicals (formerly known as Yantai Wanhua Polyurethanes) regarding the fraudulent sales of their ...

Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. (AGC) announced that it will invest about 40 billion yen to significantly increase the production capacity of its Indonesian subsidiary ...

The automotive supplier International Automotive Components (IAC) has opened its tenth manufacturing facility in China, in the South-Western city of Chongqing, ...

Speakers at the 2013 Polyurethanes Technical Conference will offer their expert insights into the changing world of energy, the need to communicate about the ...

Kraiburg TPE announced the introduction of the international energy standard ISO 50001.

International Automotive Components (IAC) has formed a joint venture with Feltex Automotive, a South Africa-based supplier of automotive flooring, acoustics, ...

Tosoh Corp. announced that it will shut down the oldest of its Nanyo complex’s three ethyleneamine production lines in Yamaguchi, Japan, in August 2013. The ...

Mega First Corporation Bhd (MFCB) announced that it has obtained approval from the government of Cambodia for the 90-year concession of a plot of land to plant ...

The Malaysian government will hold discussions with Indonesia and Thailand on the best mechanism to stabilise rubber prices, said Malaysia's International Trade ...

Asahi Kasei Chemicals and Mitsubishi Chemical have agreed to begin studies aimed at unifying their respective naphtha crackers in Mizushima, Japan, on a single ...

Cooper Standard announced its acquisition of the automotive sealing business of Jyco Sealing Technologies effective 31 July 2013. The business acquired in the ...

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) announced Romeo RIM, Inc., TSE Industries, Inc. and Invista as the ...

Exports of plastic products are expected to increase by 11-13.5 per cent, reaching US$2.2 billion in turnover this year, according to the Viet Nam Plastic ...

Following global supply growth and falling prices, Cambodian rubber has decreased in value over the past three months, according to industry experts.

SK Chemicals has begun supplying a "super engineering plastic" material that it has developed on its own to Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Engineering ...

The formation of rubber board would increase rubber production and coordination among the planters, industry owners and other stakeholders, Environment and ...

Vietnam export revenues from plastics in the first half of 2013 surpassed USD1 billion, up 9.3 % year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Plastics Association (VPA).