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August 19, 2011
BASF has confirmed plans to invest in a world-scale acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers (SAP) manufacturing complex in Brazil. The company has selected the Camaçari, Bahia, site for the investment. The complex, which will require an investment in excess of €500 million, will be the first acrylic acid and SAP manufacturing facilities in South America. It will be the largest investment in BASF’s century-long history in South America, the company says. Technical studies have looked into a plant with capacity for 160,000 m.t./year of acrylic acid, BASF says....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/BASF-to-Build-Acrylic-Acid-and-SAP-Complex-at-Camaçari-Brazil_37016.html August 8, 2011
Algae oils firm Solazyme (San Francisco) says it has signed a framework agreement with Bunge to form a triglycerides production joint venture in Brazil. The agreement, subject to a...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Solazyme-Bunge-Sign-Preliminary-Agreements-for-JV_36790.html August 4, 2011
PPG Industries says its subsidiary, PPG Colombia, has agreed to acquire the coatings business of Colpisa Colombiana de Pinturas (Colpsia; Medellin, Colombia) and its affiliates...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/PPG-Acquires-Colombian-Coatings-Maker_36707.html July 29, 2011
FMC says its agricultural products group has entered into a joint venture agreement to form a new agrochemical distribution company in Argentina named Ruralco Soluciones SA. FMC's...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/argentina/FMC-Forms-Ag-Distribution-JV-in-Argentina_36523.html July 29, 2011
FMC says it has formed a joint venture in Argentina for the distribution of agchemicals. The jv, Ruralco Soluciones (Rosario), is a partnership with a group of achem dealers previously...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/argentina/FMC-Forms-Agchem-Distribution-Venture-in-Argentina_36522.html July 28, 2011
BASF today reported flat second quarter income from operations (Ebit) before special items of €2.2 billion ($3.2 billion) on sales 14% higher at €18.5 billion compared...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/BASF-Reports-Lower-than-Expected-Earnings-and-Sales-Citing-Slowing-Growth_36484.html July 22, 2011
This Week on CW: Ecolab announced plans to acquire Nalco in an $8.1 billion deal. Second-quarter earnings came in strong: PPG's income rose 25%, Celanese's income was up...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-July-22_36378.html July 22, 2011
Braskem will begin sourcing some of its naphtha from post-consumption recycled plastic for use at the company’s complex at Camaçari, in northern Brazil. Novaenergia...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Braskem-to-Begin-Sourcing-Naphtha-Made-from-Recycled-Plastic_36335.html July 19, 2011
Dow Chemical and Mitsui & Co. say they have agreed to form a joint venture in Brazil for the production of ethanol and biobased polymers to supply the global high-performance flexible packaging, hygiene, and medical markets. Financial terms were not disclosed....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Dow-and-Mitsui-and-Co-to-Form-Ethanol-Based-Polymers-JV-in-Brazil_36241.html July 13, 2011
White Martins, the Brazilian subsidiary of Praxair, says it has inked a 15-year nitrogen and oxygen supply agreement with Braskem. White Martins will build and operate a 200 tons/day...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Braskem-Inks-Gases-Supply-Agreement-for-PVC-Plant_36124.html July 1, 2011
Haldor Topsøe has signed a contract with Rio Seco (Lima), a wholly owned subsidiary of Buenaventura SA (Lima), for the supply of a wet process sulfuric acid (WSA) plant to the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/Haldor-Topsøe-to-Supply-Wet-Process-Sulfuric-Acid-Plant-to-Peruvian-Firm_35906.html June 30, 2011
A. Schulman says it has agreed to purchases a 51% stake Argentina-based rotational-molding firm Surplast (Buenos Aires) for $1.4 million. Alta Plastica (Buenos Aires)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/argentina/Schulman-Acquires-Majority-Stake-in-Surplast_35894.html June 29, 2011
BASF Crop Protection and Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa; Brasilia), a leading Brazilian agricultural research institute, have signed an agreement to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/BASF-and-Embrapa-Sign-Brazilian-Agchems-Cooperation_35838.html June 20, 2011
The U.S. Senate has voted to repeal ethanol tax subsidies, reversing course on what has been a long-standing political imperative led by U.S. lawmakers representing farm states. A...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/U-S-Lawmakers-Vote-to-Repeal-Ethanol-Tax-Subsides_35604.html June 6, 2011
Cargill says it has opened a food and beverage industry application center at Sao Paulo, Brazil. The R$20 million ($12.6 million) facility includes laboratories dedicated to flavors...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Cargill-Opens-Application-Lab-in-Brazil_35313.html June 2, 2011
Shell and Cosan say they have launched their previously announced $12-billion ethanol and transportation fuel joint venture in Brazil, creating the country’s third-largest fuel company. The jv, named Raizen, will produce and sell over 2 billion liters of sugarcane-based ethanol and distribute over 20 billion liters of other industrial and transport fuels through Shell-branded stations annually. Raizen is also expected to export ethanol to key markets in coming years, Shell and Cosan say....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Shell-and-Cosan-Launch-Brazilian-Ethanol-Joint-Venture_35248.html June 2, 2011
Braskem’s chlor-alkali unit at its Maceio facility at Alagoas, Brazil will remain shut following a chlorine leak and subsequent pipeline rupture on May 21 and May 23...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Braskem-Chlor-Alkali-Unit-Remains-Offline-Following-Accident_35244.html June 1, 2011
Chinese lithium manufacturer Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium (Jiangxi) has acquired 9.99% of International Lithium Corp (ICL; Vancouver), which is working to develop a lithium brine project in Argentina....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/argentina/China-Closes-Strategic-Lithium-Transaction-in-Latin-America_35220.html June 1, 2011
Air Liquide says it has decided to invest €25 million ($35 million) to build a new gases plant in the Santiago region, close to Chile’s main markets. The plant will have a...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/Air-Liquide-to-Build-Gases-Plant-in-Chile_35202.html May 31, 2011
Invista says it will invest over $100 million to build a spandex fiber plant at its facility in Paulínia, Brazil. The plant is due onstream in late 2012. Capacity was not...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Invista-To-Build-Spandex-Fiber-Plant-in-Brazil_35121.html |
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