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Showa Denko Completes Construction of Carbon Nanotube Plant

March 19, 2010 | Deepti Ramesh

Showa Denko says it has completed construction of a previously announced 400-m.t./year carbon nanotube plant at the company’s Oita, Japan complex. This is the world’s largest carbon nanotube production facility, Showa Denko says. The plant will...

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DuPont Opens Technical Lab in China

DuPont says its Circuit & Packaging Materials (CPM) business has opened a new lab at Shanghai, China. The new multi-functional lab, which is located in the DuPont China R&D Center, will enable faster technical support for CPM customers in the...

China to Become Third-Largest Pharmaceutical Market in 2011

Consulting firm IMS Health (Norwalk, CT) says that China will become the third largest pharmaceutical market in the world in 2011, moving up from its current fifth position. The U.S. is the largest pharma market in the world, followed by Japan, and China is...

Linde Signs Gas Supply Contracts with Solar Manufacturers in China

Linde and its Linde LienHwa (LLH) subsidiary in China say they have signed several long-term gas supply contracts with leading solar manufacturers in China. The multi-million dollar contracts will involve Linde supplying to the full solar manufacturing value...

China to Build Biologics Contract Manufacturing Facility

Biotech company AutekBio (Santa Clara, CA), which has a subsidiary in Beijing, with support from the Chinese government, will build a contract manufacturing facility for biologics at...

Reliance to Form Marcellus Shale JV?

Reliance Industries may be looking to form a joint venture with Atlas Energy (Moon Township, PA) to develop the company’s Marcellus Shale gas operations, according to media reports. The move comes in the wake of Reliance’s failed attempts...

L&T Wins Contract for Aromatics Project in India

Larsen & Toubro (L&T; Mumbai) says it has secured a contract valued at Rs.20350 million ($447 million) from ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Ltd (OMPL; Mangalore, India) for its previously announced aromatics complex to be built in the Mangalore special...

Air Liquide Builds Air Separation Plant at Yichun, China

Air Liquide says it will invest approximately €40 million ($54.4 million) in a 1,200-m.t./day air separation plant at Yichun, Heilongjiang Province...

Japanese Firms Launch New Business Plans

Three leading Japanese chemical companies have announced strategies for growth over the next few years. The plans include a sharper focus on certain business areas, reorganizations of existing businesses, and the launch of new business entities. Sumitomo...

Sika Acquires Construction Sealant Business of Henkel Japan

Sika (Baar, Switzerland) says its Sika Japan (Hiratsuka, Japan) subsidiary has acquired the construction sealant business of Henkel Japan (Tokyo). The acquired...

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