Supermax Corp. Bhd will spend RM1.3 billion on its capital expenditure (capex) over the next nine to 12 years under its Integrated Glove Manufacturing Complex ...

Some 1,200 hectares of flooded mangrove forest in two communes of Kampong Cham province have been bulldozed and filled in, robbing more than 700 families of the ...

The Industry Ministry has brought forward its plan for the so-called Rubber City, or rubber industrial zone, to start operations in 2015 instead of 2017 as ...

Grupa Lotos SA and Grupa Azoty SA have signed an agreement to form a special purpose vehicle to carry out a comprehensive feasibility study on construction of a ...

PTT Global Chemical has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to SK Engineering and Construction and PTT Maintenance and ...

The global supplier of pigment and chemical dispersions Chromaflo Technologies and integrated tinting specialist CPS Color’s Colorant business combine to create ...

Many companies claim to be experiencing challenging market conditions, but Syrian-based company Baalbaki takes this to an entirely new level. It is operating in ...

Effective 13 December 2013, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is removing tert amyl ...

Sahara Petrochemical Co. and Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (Sipchem) have signed a memorandum of understanding to begin confirmatory due diligence and ...

Villagers embroiled in a long-standing land dispute with a Chinese rubber company in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district received an official eviction notice in ...

The rubber cutivators in the Moneragala district of Sri Lanka have been left high and dry as a result of an acute shortage of fertiliser in the district.

Global Witness, a United Kingdom-based NGO, has alleged that Deutsche Bank has dropped the majority of its holdings in a Vietnamese company that operates rubber ...

Sabic, one of the world\'s top petrochemical companies, inaugurated a major technology center in Shanghai on Monday (2 Dec. 2013), showing its commitment to the ...

The Chinese Sailun Tyres company in the Phuoc Dong-Boi Loi Industrial park, located in the southern province of Tay Ninh, put into operation its new USD 400 ...

Nigerian National Petroleum Corp.'s Warri Refining and Petrochemical Co. (WRPC) subsidiary is resuming operations at Warri, Nigeria, that were suspended ...

GE has entered into a USD 500-million agreement with Carbon Holdings to provide technology and equity support to the greenfield naphtha cracker and olefins ...

The government should provide sufficient incentives to boost downstream plastics industry growth ahead of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) single market due ...

Huntsman announced the launch of a redesigned website to better serve customers and stakeholders of its global polyurethanes insulation business.

With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF will increase its selling prices for the following products in Europe:

According to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), the substance evaluation on ethylene oxide, tributyl phosphate, m-tolylidene diisocyanate, and toluene has ...

With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF will increase its selling prices for the following products in Asia-Pacific:

JSR Corp. and MOL are establishing a joint venture to build a plant to produce 60,000 t/y of solution polymerization styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR) in ...

Kumho Tires said that it has established a strategic alliance with Japan’s Yokohama Rubber with aims to strengthen both companies’ research and development ...

M&G Chemicals said it is launching a “green revolution” in the polyester chain with plans to build a second generation biorefinery in China for the conversion ...

Recticel announced that over the last months its Automotive Interiors division has won several new multi-year contracts for the production of interior trim ...

Recticel announced that over the last months its Automotive Interiors division has won several new multi-year contracts for the production of interior trim ...

Evonik Goldschmidt Corporation, a provider of specialty surfactants to a variety of industries but with a major focus on the consumer goods market, will merge ...

Qatar’s chemical and petrochemical industry’s planned investments will further increase the country’s export portfolio to 23 million tonnes per year by 2020, ...

Malaysia is capable of offering more rubber-based products for the export market given the industry's state-of-the art technology, says Tun Musa Hitam, the ...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has proposed an increase in customs duty on import of Bopet films, which are used by the packaging industry, in an effort to ...

Korean tire makers are challenging top-tier rivals such as Bridgestone and Michelin as they continue to supply more tires to German premium carmakers. The most ...

The King Abdulaziz City For Science and Technology (KACST) and National Industrialization Company (TASNEE) have reached an agreement to develop synthetic fiber ...