The Munich-based Wacker Chemie AG has recently opened its expanded technical centre for silicone products in Amtala near Kolkata, India.

The South Korean synthetic rubber producer Kumho Petrochemical Co. has recently begun mass production of carbon nanotubes (CNT) at its plant in Asan, South ...

Sumitomo Chemical recently announced the start-up of its new 40,000 t/y SSBR facility on Jurong Island in Singapore.

Momentive may not remain “a going concern” during next twelve months. The following narrative is from the US Securities and Exchange Commission Form 12b-25 – ...

For the third consecutive year, local rubber enterprises have suffered losses because of limited exported markets and abundant supply on the market. According ...

ExxonMobil Chemical announced that it will build facilities to manufacture halobutyl rubber and Escorez hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin at its recently expanded ...

Bioplastic manufacturers are repeating their call for the government to come up with incentives to drive greater use of bioplastics in Thailand. Pipat ...

The Chinese company JiangXi Black Cat has recently opened its eighth production plant for furnace black in Jining, Shandong province. The new plant has ...

Olam International Limited, a leading agri-business operating across the value chain in 65 countries, announced that the Republic of Gabon (“RoG”) will invest ...

The Hamburg-based German company Lehmann & Voss & Co. (LuV) is boosting its activities in China with the founding of Lehvoss (Shanghai) Chemical ...

The government and industry insiders are worried about the steady decline of rubber prices over the last three years, during which the area it is cultivated in ...

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a USD 257,000 grant to Honeywell for a feasibility study that will assess different product streams ...

Lanxess and Hankook Tire have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-develop synthetic rubber technologies. Under the agreement, the two companies will ...

Wanhua-BorsodChem has recently opened a representative office under the name Wanhua Borsodchem Latin America Assessoria Comercial Ltda (WBLA) in São Paulo, Brazil.

Foam dispensing machinery manufacturer Saip Equipment has named PU chemical systems provider Foam Supplies, Inc. (FSI) as its equipment distributor in the USA ...

Shandong Sincier Petrochemical Co. has awarded a contract to CB&I for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane and butane dehydrogenation unit ...

Evonik Industries AG has acquired Silbond Corp. in Weston, MI, USA, a supplier of silicic acid esters with about 60 employees. The transaction, with a purchase ...

With the acquisition of the business of local manufacturer Taizhou Fuju Rubber Belt Manufacture Co., Ltd., the ContiTech AG from Hanover, Germany, is continuing ...

FSK, the German specialist association for foamed plastics and polyurethanes, together with its member company Hennecke GmbH, conducted an introductory workshop ...

Amyris, Inc., a synthetic biology innovator and renewable products company, and Kuraray Co., Ltd., a global chemical products company, announced the expansion ...

Invista has broken ground on new hexamethylene diamine (HMD) and nylon 6,6 polymer facilities at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China.

Effective from 1 April 2014, Styron has taken over the production capacity rights from material supplier JSR for one SSBR train at the rubber production hub in ...

For the first time, Repsol will be taking part with its own stand at the show, which is to be held in Mannheim, Germany, from 2 – 3 April 2014 during the ...