The death toll from the explosions at a chemical plant in south China on Tuesday, has increased to 20, say reports. Several more are missing and nearly 60 have been injured, reports... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13834.html
DSM says it will close its citric acid manufacturing plant at Wuxi, China by the first quarter of 2009. This decision follows a request from the Wuxi government to relocate the plant... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13849.html
PetroChina's chemicals business posted a 24% increase in first-half operating profits, to Rmb6.7 billion ($975 million) on sales up 21%, to Rmb60.5 billion. Second-quarter figures were... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13851.html
Bayer MaterialScience has started construction of a previously announced toluene diisocyanate (TDI) facility at Caojing, China near Shanghai. The plant will have an initial... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13762.html
The cost of a previously announced refinery and petrochemical joint venture between Sinopec and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC; Kuwait City) at Nansha, China has escalated from... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13786.html
Drilling products and services company Imdex (Perth, Australia) says it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire all shares in specialty chemicals firm Wildcat Chemicals Australia... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13746.html
Bayer MaterialScience has started construction on a previously announced toluene diisocyanate (TDI) facility at an integrated production site in Shanghai. The new plant will have an... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13730.html
Lonza says it has formed a business unit in Guangzhou, China, called Lonza Engineering, which will provide engineering, facility design, and maintenance services to local... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13648.html
Chinese producer of bromine, crude salt, and specialty chemicals Gulf Resources (Shouguang) reported second-quarter net income of $6.3 million, up 103% compared with the year-ago... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13586.html
Hercules says it has started a new production line for carboxymethylcellulose (CMCII) at Jiangmen, Guangdong province, China. This is part of the company’s RMB 200 million ($30... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13547.html
Borouge (Abu Dhabi), a petrochemicals joint venture in which Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. holds 60% and Borealis 40%, says it has awarded a $220-million service contract to Agility (Abu... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13523.html
Air Products says it has signed a long-term agreement to supply onsite oxygen and nitrogen to Weihe Clean Energy’s (Weinan) coal-to-chemicals plant located at... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13383.html
FMC says it has agreed to acquire CoLiving Food Ingredients (Guangzhou, China), for an undisclosed sum. The deal includes an application laboratory at... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13388.html
Cepsa Química (Madrid) is planning to build a world-scale phenol and acetone complex at Caojing, China near Shanghai, CW has learned. The company has applied to the Chinese... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13411.html
PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co., a PetroChina subsidiary, says it has selected Dow Technology Licensing’s Unipol polypropylene (PP) process for a 450,000-m.t./year plant to... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13413.html
Air Products says it has signed a long term contract with Weihe Clean Energy Company Limited, a subsidiary of coal-based fertilizer and methanol producer Shaan’xi Weihe Coal... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13362.html
PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co. says it has selected the Unipol polypropylene (PP) technology from Dow Technology Licensing for a 450,000-m.t./year plant to be built at Chengdu... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13304.html
Albemarle says it has become 100% owner of its two polymer additives joint ventures in China, Ningbo Jinhai Albemarle Chemical & Industry (Ningbo) and Shanghai Jinhai Albemarle... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/13107.html
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