30 December 2013 Details Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is acquiring Phillips Specialty Products Inc. (PSPI), a flow improver business, from Phillips 66......
ChemaWEyaat and Indorama establish a joint venture_Tacaamol_for Aromatics_Paraxylene and Benzene_production in Abu Dhabi
26 December 2013 Details Abu Dhabi National Chemicals Company (ChemaWEyaat) and Indorama Ventures Plc, signed a joint venture agreement to devel......
Kemira Oyj sells its formic acid business to Taminco Corporation
23 December 2013 Details Kemira signed an agreement today to sell its formic acid business, including the feed and the airport runway deicing p......
Synthos S.A. teams up with Akron-based Harwick Standard Distribution Corporation for SBR and BR distribution in USA
18 December 2013 Details Synthos S.A., has announced a stragtegic sales alliance with Ohio based Harwick Standard Distribution Corporation to di......
Solvay to sell its stake in Solvay Indupa to Braskem
17 December 2013 Details Solvay announced today it has signed a binding agreementwith Braskem, Brazil's leading PVC producer, to sell its 70.59......
FMC Corporation to sell Peroxygens Business to One Equity Partners
13 December 2013 Details FMC Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Peroxygens business to affiliates ofOne Equity Partners, ......
Haldor Topsoe to build automotive catalyst plant in China for products used to remove NOx from the engine exhaust of diesel vehicles
12 December 2013 Details Haldor Topsoe A/S's board of directors today approved the capital investment needed to carry out the construction that......
Arkema to divest coating businesses in South Africa
12 December 2013 Details Arkema, announces a plan to divest its two South African subsidiaries, * Arkema Resins Proprietary Limited and * Harv......
PTT GLOBAL CHEMICAL_signing of the manufacturing joint venture_Heads of Agreement with PT Pertamina for a world scale petrochemical complex investment in Indodesia
11 December 2013 Details PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC) has signed the Manufacturing Joint Venture Heads of Agreement (MJV-HOA) with PT Perta......
Clariant expands ethoxylation site in USA for products including polyethylene glycol_alcohol ethoxylates_sodium isethionates and ethoxylated specialties
4 December 2013 Details Clariant announced the second expansion of ethoxylation site at Clear Lake in Pasadena, Texas, USA. The product from C......
PTT GLOBAL CHEMICAL_The Aromatics 2 Debottlenecking project contract signing
28 November 2013 Details PTT Global ChemicalPLC. has signed the EPC contract to increase nameplate capacity of Aromatics 2 from 1,070,000 tons pe......
Jushi Group announces the start-up of fiberglass plant in Egypt
27 November 2013 Details Jushi Group announces that its 80,000 ton/year fiberglass production line in Egypt will be started up at 15:58 Cairo ti......
Kuraray to Acquire DuPont Business_Polyvinyl butyral PVB_Ionomer sheets_VAM and PVA products_Glass Laminating Solutions/Vinyls Business
21 November 2013 Details Kuraray and DuPont have signed a definitive agreementfor the DuPontto sell glass laminating Solutions/Vinyls (GLS/Vinyls......
Vencorex invests in Aliphatic Isocyanates derivatives production in Thailand
20 November 2013 Details Vencorex is expanding its global capacity for Aliphatic Isocyanates derivatives by establishing a new production in Thail......
TOTAL informed about accident on the Antwerp Refinery
19 November 2013 Details An Explosion occured in a unit at the Total Antwerp Refinery at around 3.00 p.m. on November 19, Unfortunately, two cont......
LANXESS brings expanded cresol production plant in Germany on stream
15 November 2013 Details Lanxesshas completed the expansion of its cresol production plant in Leverkusen, Germany. The expansion increases ......
Solvay and Shanhai 3F to form a JV company to produce fluoromonomer TFE and PTFE Polymers in China_
14 November 2013 Details Solvay and Shanghai 3F New Material Co., Ltd have agreed to establish a production joint venture (The TFE/PTFE producti......
Sekisui Specialty Chemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd._Sekisui to establish a new CPVC compound production and sales company in Thailand
12 November 2013 Details Prevously, Sekisui Chemical has decided to establish a CPVC resin manufacturing joint venture company in Thailand with ......
Indorama Ventures to inform the moth-balling of its PET plant in UK
12 November 2013 Details Indorama Ventures would like to informthe moth-balling of its PET plant at Indorama Polymers Workingston Ltd. in the Un......
BP reveals a new route for the production of acetic acid from syngas
7 November 2013 Details BP today announced two new technologies for the production of key petrochemical feedstocks, 1. Acetic acid from Syngas pr......