A new class of sustainable bio-renewable foams developed by Natural Foams Technology in June 2014 became the first ever polyurethane foam to be accepted into ...

The 3rd ICIS Polyurethane Chain Conference will take place from 20 – 21 October 2014 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore. The event is produced and delivered ...

A Thai-US joint venture that makes and exports rubber gloves under the Safeskin brand has announced the planned permanent closure of its operation in Songkhla ...

Huntsman and Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co. Ltd. (SCAC) announced plans to double the MDI splitting capacity of their joint venture company, Huntsman ...

Bridgestone Corporation announced that its wholly owned US subsidiary, Bridgestone Hose America Inc., reached an agreement to acquire US-based Masthead ...

Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies is continuing to build its global fluid power position through significant investments at its Schwalmstadt, Germany, ...

Effective 1 July 2014, Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. has recognised Archway Sales, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexeo Solutions, LLC, as an authorised ...

From the start of the new financial year on 1 July 2014, the Rampf Group’s five core companies will be operating under new names, thus reflecting the much ...

Oxea Corporation announced that it has encountered a significant production issue at its Bay City, TX, USA, facility. According to Oxea, due to a malfunction in ...

Chromaflo Technologies, a global supplier of pigment and chemical dispersions for the thermoset and coatings industries, announced the appointment of new ...

AkzoNobel is investing more than EUR 6.5 million in its Songjiang site near Shanghai to expand an existing research centre by adding a dedicated facility for ...

The government has come to the rescue of rubber planters in Liberia with the continuous nosedive recently in the rubber industry in terms of price on the world ...

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Co. (Orpic) has sent a “request for information’ to several local and international engineering contractors, ...

Oxea said that its specialty esters plant at the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in Nanjing, China, has reached mechanical completion and is now in the ...

The IISRP and its financial cosponsors, the American Chemistry Council’s Olefins Panel and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), have announced ...

Attendees at the 2014 Polyurethanes Technical Conference can look forward to a pre-conference workshop on the environmental, health and safety (EHS) issues ...

Nexen Tire Corp., the smallest of South Korea's three tiremakers, said Friday (20 June 2014) it will exclusively supply tires to two lines of vehicles made by ...

Iran’s National Petrochemical Co. (NPC) is building a 450,000-t/y propylene plant that is intended to provide additional raw materials for the petrochemical ...

Nexen Tire, Korea’s third-largest tire manufacturer, will build a plant in the Czech Republic after local authorities approved the deal worth 22.8 billion ...

Technip, leader of a joint venture with Fluor, has been awarded a program management consultancy contract by Petronas for the Refinery and Petrochemical ...

Huntsman announced that during the second quarter of 2014 it experienced an unplanned manufacturing disruption within its Polyurethanes division.

Led by the Dow Polyurethanes R&D team in Italy in partnership with Cannon Group companies, Afros and Crios, as well as Federchimica, and co-funded by the ...

The past year has seen considerable debate in Sacramento about the use of flame retardants in home furnishings. The nation’s leading manufacturers of flame ...

The polyurethane systems house Bayer Pearl has broken ground for construction of its new headquarters in the Dubai Investments Park, which will be the site of ...

The International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) on 17 June 2014 announced that it has initiated a preliminary investigation into imports of polyethylene ...

The Office of the Rubber Replanting Aid Fund (ORRAF) is in the process of finding measures to lower the cost of rubber production to alleviate the plight of ...

BASF, Huntsman Corporation, Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co. Ltd., Shanghai Hua Yi (Group) Company, and Sinopec Group Assets Management Corporation plan to ...

Multistrada Arah Sarana, a tire maker in Indonesia, still faces bureaucratic hurdles in Kazakhstan as the company seeks to build a tire plant in the Central ...

PT Yokohama Industrial Products Manufacturing Indonesia, part of Japan’s Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd., has commenced the development of its new plant in Batam, ...

Rubber prices, which have dipped to a low of RM1.80 per kg, is only a temporary phenomena and the market for the commodity is set to recover soon, says Sabah ...