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July 30, 2008
IndianOil to Build India's First SBR Plant
IndianOil aims to sign a heads of agreement with two international partners by end of August to build India’s first styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) plant, company sources tell CW...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/13319.html
May 15, 2008
Mitsui Chemicals Starts up EPDM Plant
Mitsui Chemicals says it has started commercial production of ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber at the company's No. 3 EPDM plant at Ichihara, Japan. The plant has...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/11916.html
March 10, 2008
Dow Shuts Co-PBR Assets in France; Sells Houston Plant
Dow Chemical says it will shut down its cobalt-polybutadiene rubber (Co-PBR) assets at Berre L’Etang, France. The facility is located within Shell Chemicals’ complex, and...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/10759.html
February 21, 2008
Asahi Kasei Plans Synthetic Rubber Expansion in Japan
Asahi Kasei Chemicals, an Asahi Kasei subsidiary, says it will increase production capacity for solution-polymerized styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR) by 10,000 m.t./year at the...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/10457.html
February 8, 2008
Lanxess Selects Singapore for Butyl Rubber Project
Singapore has won the race to host Lanxess's previously reported €400-million ($592.8 million) butyl rubber project, local reports say. Lanxess declined to comment on...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/10252.html
January 30, 2008
Dow Joint Venture Plans Elastomers Plant in Thailand
SCG-Dow Group, a joint venture between Dow Chemical and Siam Cement (Bangkok), says it will build a specialty elastomers plant at Map Ta Phut, Thailand to supply customers in...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/10105.html
January 23, 2008
Brussels Fines Bayer Again for Fixing Rubber Prices
The European Commission has fined Bayer and Zeon (Tokyo) a combined €34 million for conspiring to fix the price of nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) between 2000 and 2002. Bayer was...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/9960.html
December 5, 2007
European Commission Fines Five Companies $357 Million for Fixing Chloroprene Prices
The European Commission has fined five companies a combined €243.2 million ($357 million) for conspiring to fix prices of chloroprene rubber in the European Union "from at...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/9227.html
July 11, 2007
Lanxess Eyes Sites For Rubber Project
Lanxess says it is evaluating three possible sites in Southeast Asia for a €400-million ($540 million) project to build a butyl rubber manufacturing plant: Singapore; Kuantan...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/6749.html
July 11, 2007
Asahi Boosts S-SBR in Japan
Asahi Kasei Chemicals (AKC), an Asahi Kasei subsidiary, plans to increase production capacity for solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) at Oita, Japan by 10,000...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/6750.html
July 11, 2007
Lanxess Stretches Rubber Capacity in France
Lanxess says is will add capacity for caboxylated nitrile butadiene rubber...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/6753.html
July 11, 2007
Tire Industry Boosts Demand
Global demand for carbon black is expected to grow 4.2%/year, to 11 million m.t., by 2011, says a recent study by The Freedonia Group (Cleveland). A healthy global rubber market will...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/6770.html
July 11, 2007
Lion Finalizes Chemtura EPDM Buy
Private equity firm Lion Chemical (New York) says it has completed the purchase of Chemtura’s ethylene-propylene...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/6791.html












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