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H.B. Fuller to acquire Brazilian adhesives firm Plexbond Quimica

9:33 PM MDT | May 20, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

H.B. Fuller says it has signed an agreement to purchase adhesives company Plexbond Quimica (Curitiba, Brazil), a provider of chemical polyurethane specialties and polyester resins. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Plexbond Quimica...

Obituary: Haldor Topsøe passes away

8:14 AM MDT | May 21, 2013 | Natasha Alperowicz

Haldor Frederik Axel Topsøe, founder of Haldor Topsøe (Copenhagen) passed away, shortly before his 100th birthday, after a brief illness, the company and his family announced Monday. He remained actively involved in the daily...

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NatureWorks names distributor for Brazilian market

3:13 AM MDT | May 21, 2013 | Francinia Protti-Alvarez

NatureWorks (Minnetonka, MN) has named Cromex (São Paulo) as its distributor for Ingeo biobased polymers in Brazil, NatureWorks has announced. Cromex will distribute NatureWorks' biobased polymers to its customer base of thermoformers, film extruders...

Europe

SNF to build acrylamide facility in Russia

1:33 AM MDT | May 21, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

Lukoil (Moscow) says that SNF (Andrézieux, France) has agreed on a project to produce acrylamide and polyacrylamide at the production site of Lukoil’s petrochemical subsidiary, Saratovorgsintez (Saratov, Russia). SNF will implement the project in...

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A Kansas federal court on Wednesday ordered Dow Chemical to pay $1.2 billion in a previously announced urethanes price-fixing case, tripling, as expected, the fine announced in February this year. Dow was one of five companies named in a 2005 class action lawsuit for alleged conspiracy to fix urethane prices...

Asia/Pacific

Bayer MaterialScience opens innovation hub at Shanghai

4:05 AM MDT | May 21, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

Bayer says that its Bayer MaterialScience subsidiary has opened a previously announced new regional innovation hub for Asia/Pacific at Shanghai. More than 200 experts will develop ideas for the use of high-performance plastics, foams, and coatings in key...

Mideast/Africa

Ma'aden restarts ammonia and diammonium phosphate plants

2:02 AM MDT | May 19, 2013 | Natasha Alperowicz

Saudi Arabian Mining Co.’s (Ma’aden; Riyadh) subsidiary Ma’aden Phosphate Co. (MPC) has restarted its ammonia manufacturing complex at Ras Az Zawr, Saudi Arabia, the company announced today. The 1.1-million m.t./year ammonia plant was...