Tessenderlo Group announced today that it has received an offer for its compounds activities from Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. The intended sale comprises ...

Pirelli & C SpA, the Italian tire giant, is planning a $200 million investment to make China its largest global manufacturing center by 2014.

IRPC, a PTT Plc subsidiary, is taking the big step of transforming itself from a petrochemical producer to a chemical technology inventor.

The Department of Environment (DoE) on 26 Feb. 2013 in a drive seized around 13,000 kg of polythene bags and plastics beads and machineries from a factory in ...

Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd has earmarked RM1.9 billion for business expansion that includes acquisition plans as a result of its revision in the utilisation ...

Russian petrochemical company, Sibur, has registered Sibur International Trading Istanbul and Sibur International Trading Kiev in Turkey and Ukraine, ...

Pertamina has requested an Indonesian government guarantee of protection that would restrict other companies from building petrochemical refineries capable of ...

Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Yuthapong Charassat said he was startled to find 10,000 tonnes of rubber left to rot in warehouses in three ...

General Tyre and Rubber Company of Pakistan Limited (Gentipak), also listed at the Karachi Stock Exchange, launched motorcycle tyres for an investment of Rs500 ...

Hanwha Chemical said 15 Feb. 2013 it is seeking to build an ethylene plant in the United States in collaboration with an American shale gas company (not further ...

PTT Global Chemical plans to invest Bt30 billion a year or Bt300 billion within 10 years to set up new petrochemical plants in Malaysia, Indonesia and China.

The Lubrizol Corporation announced its plans to increase its chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) resin capacity through a joint investment in a manufacturing ...

Evonik Industries announced it is expanding its capacities for precipitated silicas worldwide by about 30 % by 2014, as compared to 2010. The company says it is ...

The PTFE grades F-4 and F4-D, manufactured by HaloPolymer in Perm and Kirovo-Chepetsk, Russia, have been tested in the American laboratory of Intertek ...

Rubber production in Bangladesh is set to grow higher by four times by the year 2020 with the government taking a move to bring more barren lands in the hilly ...

Hankook Tire, Korea’s leading tire maker, said 15 Feb. 2013 its Chinese sales account for nearly 18 percent of its total revenue, fueled by strong demand in the ...

Asahi Kasei Chemicals on 11 Feb. 2013 held a Grand Opening Ceremony for new acrylonitrile (AN) and methyl methacrylate (MMA) plants at Hemaraj Eastern ...

As domestic auto sales slumped last year, so did the figures for Korean tires, the Korea Tire Manufacturers Association (Kotma) said.

Iran has proposed setting up a petrochemical exporting forum and is involved in talking with several countries including a number of neighboring countries on ...

With the founding of the new subsidiary Lehvoss North America, LLC in Pawcatuck, CT, USA, the Hamburg-based German company Lehmann & Voss now has a direct ...

The independent tyre service and sales company Preventative Tire Maintenance Group, Ltd. in Mansfield, TX, USA, announced that it will specialise solely in ...

Bridgestone Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. will establish a new technical centre in Thailand.

Zeon has announced plans to increase production capacity for HyTemp acrylic rubber at its Kentucky plant.

Reverdia, a joint venture between DSM and Roquette, and Helm have signed an agreement for the European distribution and joint market development of Reverdia’s ...

For 2012 Lanxess reported a satisfactory result, as Chairman of the Board A. Heitmann at the annual prelude conference announced recently. The turnover of ...

Nylon producer Invista and bio­technology firm LanzaTech have agreed on the joint development of bio-based butadiene.

Borouge, in line with its plan to increase its polyolefin production capacity to 4.5-million t/y by 2014, will open a representative office in Jakarta, ...

LG Chem, of South Korea, is planning to build an ethylene production plant in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, in collaboration with two other Kazakh firms, with production ...

An analytical study released by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, or MoFT, has revealed that UAE exports of plastics grew by 127 %, or USD 2.2 billion, from the ...

Daibochi Plastic and Packaging Industry Bhd will spend RM45 million over the next three years to build a new manufacturing plant.

The Viet Nam National Chemical Group (Vinachem) was reported to have sold 10 per cent of Da Nang Rubber Co (DRC) to a Japanese partner.

Gajah Tunggal, Indonesia’s largest tire manufacturer, announced on 8 Feb. 2013 that it had completed a $500 million bond sale, the bulk of which will be used to ...

China's petrochemical industry saw steady growth in total output in 2012, but profits dropped from a year earlier due to weak demand, the country's top economic ...

The new Chief Executive Officer of LG Chem, Park Jin-soo, has said the company won’t slash any investments this year, although he expects a tough year ahead due ...

BioAmber will be the supplier of bio-based succinic acid to a Faurecia-Mitsubishi Chemical partnership for the production of automotive plastics.

Sibur has established a new centre for synthetic rubber research and development in Voronezh. Previously, R&D in the field of synthetic rubbers used to be ...

Bridgestone announced that its Hungarian subsidiary Bridgestone Tatabánya Termelö Kft. will increase the production ­capacity for its passenger car radial tyres ...

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has completed the acquisition of American Fluoroseal Corporation (AFC), a manu­facturer of fluorinated ethylene propylene bags ...

Dätwyler Holding Inc. will combine the present Sealing Technologies and Pharma Packaging divisions to form the new Sealing Solutions division. The logic behind ...

Saudi Arabia is the most prominent producer in the global petrochemical industry. The Kingdom holds approximately one-fifth of the world’s proven oil reserves, ...

Lanxess recently informed about the results of an extensive study about the global S-SBR markets. It features findings based on the opinions of decision-makers ...

PolyOne has acquired Glasforms, Inc., a manufacturer of glass and carbon fibre-reinforced polymers and composite products.

Moscow-based Albis Plastic OOO, a fully owned subsidiary of German company Albis Plastic GmbH located in Hamburg, has expanded its product portfolio for the ...

Amyris, Inc. announced the first commercial shipment from its new plant in Brazil. The company's first purpose-built industrial fermentation facility produces ...

The Stock Exchange of Thailand-listed PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC), Thailand's largest petrochemical producer, plans a major upgrade to its chemical business ...

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has set tariff value for imported tyres of motor cars and three-wheelers to prevent duty evasion through under-invoicing.

PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC), Thailand's biggest petrochemical maker, will spend nearly 200 billion baht through 2017 on expansion and greater efficiency.

Sadara Chemical Co. partners Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco) and Dow Chemical expect to complete financing arrangements this year for their $20-billion joint ...

Qatar Holding LLC, a unit of the Qatar Investment Authority, is considering investing about $5-billion in Malaysian petrochemical projects over the next five ...

The $10 million (Dh36.78 million) Emirates Fibre plant, which produces polyester fibre, launched on Thursday (31 Jan. 2013) with the aim of supplying the local ...

Hankook Tire, South Korea’s biggest tire maker, posted record global sales in 2012, thanks to brisk sales of its premium tires to luxury automobile ...

The Ministry of Climate Change has imposed a ban on production, sale and import of polythene bags within the limits of Islamabad, the capital, with effect from ...

Magsaysay, a third-class municipality east of its more famous neighbor Digos City, is turning to rubber trees to mitigate erosion and landslides for its hilly ...