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Azelis announces new distribution partnerships

Azelis has been appointed as exclusive distributor by Robinson Brothers, an independent UK speciality organic chemical manufacturer, to offer their Robac range ...

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IMCD Group to distribute Tecnoflon FKM from Solvay

The IMCD Group has entered a Pan-European distribution partnership with Solvay Specialty Polymers for its Tecnoflon FKM product range.

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Zeon to distribute Aflas fluoroelastomers from AGCCA

AGC Chemicals Americas Inc. (AGCCA) and Zeon Chemicals have announced a distribution agreement for AGCCA’s Aflas fluoroelastomers.

Thermoplastic Elastomers
Kraiburg TPE Asia Pacific launches new packaging features to prevent counterfeiting and to facilitate data management

Kraiburg TPE Asia Pacific has announced the launch of new product packaging for its TPE compounds. It features high-tech security elements on its labelling as ...

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IISRP establishes Liaison Office in China

The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers, Inc. (IISRP) and the China Synthetic Rubber Industry Association (CSRIA) have agreed to formally ...

Polyurethanes
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products and Archway Sales expand distribution agreement

DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Company LLC has appointed Archway Sales, Inc. as its distribution partner to represent the Susterra 1,3-propanediol product line ...

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APS adds Huntsman's Irogran and Avalon TPUs to its distribution portfolio

Alliance Polymers & Services, LLC (APS) is the newest North American distributor of Huntsman Polyurethanes’ Irogran and Avalon thermoplastic polyurethanes ...

Polyurethanes
CPI seeking papers and posters for the 2014 Polyurethanes Technical Conference

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council has issued a call for papers and posters to be presented at the 2014 ...

Polyurethanes
Midea to adopt Honeywell’s next-generation blowing agent in energy-efficient refrigerators

Chinese appliance manufacturer Midea will adopt Honeywell’s next-generation Solstice Liquid Blowing Agent (LBA) to insulate its refrigerators and freezers. ...

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Keyuan announces plans for capacity expansions

Ningbo-based Keyuan Petrochemicals announced plans to build a new S-SBR production ­facility and expand its existing ethylene-styrene copolymer plant. Keyuan, ...

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Cabot and Risun commission new JV carbon black plant in China

Cabot (China) Ltd. and Risun Chemical Company, Ltd. have completed and commissioned their new joint venture carbon black manufacturing facility in Xingtai, ...

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Borouge eyes threefold clientele increase with capacity expansion

Borouge is seeking to increase its customer base by threefold as it prepares to enact a massive capacity expansion at its petrochemicals plant in Abu Dhabi. The ...

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OMAN: Oman Gas plans LPG, NGL extraction projects

Oman Gas Company (OGC) is preparing to make a strategic shift from its traditional focus on gas transportation to petrochemicals processing and other ...

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INDONESIA: Chandra starts expansion project next year

PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical (TPIA), the country’s largest petrochemical company, will start to revamp its naphtha cracker plant in Cilegon, Banten, in January ...

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VIETNAM: Formosa to invest USD 500 million in Vietnam factory

Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), Taiwan's largest industrial group, said that it plans to invest USD 500 million in Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province to expand its ...

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CHINA: Chevron Phillips Chemical divests Chinese PS assets to Grand Astor

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. said it has completed the sale of affiliate Chevron Phillips Chemical (China) Co., which owns a polystyrene (PS) plant in ...

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KOREA (SOUTH)/US: SK Global Chemical looks to build shale gas-based ethane plant

"We are in talks with North American companies to build a plant to extract ethane from shale gas." Cha Hwa-yeop, SK Global Chemical president, said this in an ...

Polyurethanes
Oman Oil Company acquires Oxea from Advent International

Private equity firm Advent International announced its divestment from Oxea, one of the largest global manufacturers of Oxo chemicals. Oman Oil Company (OOC), a ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Chemical firms unveil sustainability initiative to improve supply chains

Chemical giants Bayer, Lanxess, Evonik Industries, Henkel, BASF, and Solvay are working together to improve supply-chain sustainability and transparency. The ...

Polyurethanes
China: Chemtura opens new Nantong facility for petroleum additives and urethanes

Chemtura has opened its new multi-purpose facility in Nantong, China, consisting of three production units for petroleum additives and urethane products.

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Krahn Chemie to distribute Sinopec styrene block copolymers in Europe

Krahn Chemie and Sinopec Europa Handels GmbH have agreed to work together to distribute styrene butadiene styrene (SBS), styrene ethylene butadiene styrene ...

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CHINA: SKC completes construction of 33,000-t/y PET film plant in Jiangsu

SKC Inc. has completed the construction of a plant to produce PET (polyethylene terephthalate) film in China's Jiangsu Province. The SK Group company said on 29 ...

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KOREA (SOUTH) Hyosung develops new material to replace nylon

Hyosung Group, a leading industrial conglomerate in South Korea, announced on Monday (4 Nov. 2013) that it has developed a new and advanced polymeric material ...

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QATAR: 'Qatar has major petrochemical expansion plans'

Qatar has greater petrochemical expansion plans than any other country in the region over the next 5-10 years and is well positioned for success, a global team ...

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PAKISTAN: General Tyre to set up plant in north

The chairman of General Tyre & Rubber Co., Lt. Gen. (retired) Ali Kuli Khan Khattak said that his company has a plan to set up a manufacturing plant in the ...

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THAILAND: Agriculture ministry optimistic rubber price will return to normal mid-2014

The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives promises that it will not intervene in the rubber price and says it believes the rubber price problem will be ...

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TAIWAN: Chain Yarn marks completion of plant

Chain Yarn Co., the nation’s fourth-largest nylon maker, has announced the formal completion of its new plant in Nantou County’s Jhushan Township, which it said ...