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Arkema Announces Major Acrylics Investment in the U.S.

7:35 AM MST | November 17, 2010 | Ian Young

Arkema has announced investments totaling $110 million at the company's acrylics sites at Clear Lake and Bayport, TX over the next three years. The plan will target acrylic acid and esters, and it focuses on fast-growing applications in the water treatment...

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Samsung Total Selects LyondellBasell Technology for LDPE-EVA Copolymer Plant

Samsung Total Petrochemicals has selected the LyondellBasell Lupotech T technology for a previously announced 200,000...

Rhodia and Roquette to Co-Develop New Plant-Based Polymers

Rhodia, a subsidiary of Solvay, says it has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with Roquette (Lestrem, France) to develop new plant-based polymers. Each company will have the opportunity, through the JDA, to leverage synergies bringing together...

Air Liquide Invests €40 Million in Air Separation Unit in South Africa

Air Liquide said today that it will invest €40 million in a new air separation unit (ASU) in South Africa. This follows the signing of a long-term contract with Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium, the second largest steel producer...

Jacobs Awarded Contract for Methanex Plant Relocation

Jacobs Engineering says it has received a contract from Methanex, the world's leading supplier of methanol, to provide engineering services for a planned methanol production facility in Louisiana...

Aesica to Expand HPAPI Capacity at Two Sites in U.K.

Aesica Pharmaceuticals (Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.), a provider of active pharma ingredients (API), formulations, and custom synthesis, says it plans to upgrade its API manufacturing facilities, enabling it to manufacture high potency APIs (HPAPIs) at...

Sumitomo to Build Second SSBR Plant in Singapore; Breaks Ground on First Plant (Update)

Sumitomo Chemical tells CW that it is planning to build an additional solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR) manufacturing plant at Singapore. The second plant is expected to have a production capacity of about 40,000 m.t./year. The company says...

Rockwood to Build Lithium Carbonate Plant in Chile

Rockwood Holdings says it plans to invest $140 million to build a 20,000-m.t./year lithium carbonate production plant at LeNegra, Chile. The plant is expected to come onstream by the end of 2013. Along with the company’s current $75-million expansion...

AkzoNobel Hikes MCA Capacity in China, Completes Expansion in the Netherlands

AkzoNobel announced today that it will expand its monochloroacetic acid (MCA) plant at Taixing, China and said that it has recently completed expansion of its MCA unit at Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The Taixing plant, first completed In 2002 with a capacity of...

Saudi Arabia Starts Up Huge DAP Complex

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has announces the start of commercial operation at its diammonium phosphate (DAP) plant. The plant is...

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