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Archives :: World News and Views :: Asia/Pacific
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November 6, 2012
BASF today inaugurated its first innovation campus in Asia/Pacific and its new Greater China headquarters at the company’s Pudong site, in Shanghai. The €55-million ($71.4...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/BASF-creates-AsiaPacific-innovation-hub-consolidates-Greater-China-HQ-at-Pudong_47466.html November 6, 2012
Lenzing says that trial operations at the fifth production line of the company's subsidiary South Pacific Viscose (SPV; Purwakarta, Indonesia) started in late October. The new...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/southeast_asia/indonesia/Lenzing-starts-up-new-capacity-at-Indonesian-rayon-fiber-plant_47474.html November 6, 2012
PTT Global Chemical (Bangkok), Thailand's largest integrated petrochemical and refining company, reported that net profits more than doubled for the third quarter, ended 30 September...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/southeast_asia/thailand/PTT-Global-Chemical-reports-huge-rise-in-profits_47478.html November 6, 2012
Nippon Shokubai says that operations at all the production facilities at its manufacturing complex at Himeji, Japan, remain suspended following the explosion and fire at the site on 29...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Nippon-Shokubais-Himeji-plant-remains-offline-no-restart-date-announced_47475.html November 6, 2012
Hikal (Mumbai), an outsourcing partner to companies in the pharma, biotech, agchem, and specialty chemical industries, has recorded a 81.9% fall in net profits for its fiscal...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/india_pakistan/Hikal-reports-fall-in-profits_47470.html November 6, 2012
Dow Chemical says it has opened a photovoltaics (PV) films application laboratory at Shanghai to help customers in Asia/Pacific improve how they harness the power of the sun with the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/Dow-opens-PV-films-application-lab-in-Shanghai_47468.html November 5, 2012
China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC; Beijing), the parent company of PetroChina, says that PetroChina’s Fushun Petrochemical (Fushun, China) subsidiary has started up a...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/PetroChina-starts-up-ethylene-plant-at-Fushun_47444.html November 5, 2012
Tokuyama (Tokyo) reported a net loss of ¥2.5 billion ($31 million) for the fiscal first half, ended 30 September 2012, compared with a net profit of ¥2.7 billion in the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Tokuyama-swings-to-loss_47442.html November 2, 2012
BASF today inaugurated a new dispersions plant at the Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial Park at Huizhou, China. The new plant, exclusively revealed in CW, is designed to produce a...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/BASF-inaugurates-large-dispersions-plant-at-Huizhou-China-future-expansion-likely_47415.html November 2, 2012
Teijin says that Teijin Thailand’s (Bangkok) plant in Bang Pa-In Industrial Estate, Ayutthaya Province, returned to full-scale production on 31 October 2012. The plant had...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/southeast_asia/thailand/Teijins-polyester-facilities-in-Thailand-resume-normal-operations_47424.html November 2, 2012
Nippon Shokubai has provided an update on its superabsorbent polymers (SAP) business, following the 29 September 2012 fire, which knocked out 18% of the global SAP supply, at...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Nippon-Shokubai-confirms-feasibility-study-for-Chattanooga-SAP-plant-restart_47421.html November 2, 2012
Showa Denko recorded a 35.8% fall in net profits for the first 9 months of 2012 compared with the year-ago period, to ¥11.2 billion ($140 million). Sales decreased 14.8%, to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Showa-Denkos-chemicals-and-petrochemicals-businesses-report-losses-lower-sales_47419.html November 2, 2012
Ube Industries reported a 30.6% fall in net profits for its fiscal first half, ended 30 September 2012, compared with the year-ago period, to ¥8.4 billion ($105 million). Sales...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Ube-reports-fall-in-profits-sales_47418.html November 2, 2012
Kuraray reported a 26% fall in net profits for its fiscal first half, ended 30 September 2012, compared with the year-ago period, to ¥12.7 billion ($159 million). Sales decreased...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Kuraray-reports-fall-in-profits_47417.html November 2, 2012
Teijin reported a net loss of ¥593 million ($7 million) in its fiscal first half, ended 30 September 2012, compared with a net profit of ¥9.2 billion in the year-ago period...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Teijin-swings-to-loss_47416.html November 2, 2012
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) says that Merck Chemicals China has opened a pigments and cosmetics Technology Application Network China (TANC), at Shanghai. The TANC was...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/Merck-KGaA-opens-pigments-cosmetics-technology-application-network-in-Shanghai_47414.html November 1, 2012
Tosoh Corp. plans to increase capacity at its No.3 vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) unit at the Nanyo, Japan complex by 50% to 600,000 m.t./year at a cost of ¥5 billion ($63 million)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Tosoh-to-expand-Nanyo-No-3-vinyl-chloride-monomer-plant-by-50-percent_47413.html November 1, 2012
Mitsubishi Chemical reported a 91% fall in net profits for its fiscal first half, ended 30 September 2012, compared with the year-ago period, to ¥3.3 billion ($41 million). Sales...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Mitsubishi-Chemical-reports-huge-fall-in-profits_47389.html November 1, 2012
Momentive Performance Materials says it has opened the previously announced new global R&D center and business headquarters for the India, Mideast, and Africa (IMEA) region at...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/india_pakistan/Momentive-opens-global-R-and-D-center-in-India_47394.html November 1, 2012
The Ministry of Commerce, PRC (Mofcom; Beijing) says it will begin an antidumping and antisubsidy investigation into imports by China of solar-grade polysilicon from the European Union...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/China-to-investigate-imports-of-solar-grade-polysilicon-from-the-EU_47393.html |
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