MARKETS

EU launches campaign for coordinated investment in micro- and nano-electronics

The European Commission says it has launched a campaign for coordinated public investment in micro- and nano-electronics, including semiconductors and computer chips. The campaign is designed to expand Europe's advanced manufacturing base. Micro- and...

Croda acquires Arizona Chemical's specialty products business

Croda has completed the acquisition of Arizona Chemical's (Jacksonville, FL) specialty products business, a producer of naturally derived polyamides. "The varied functionality of these specialized polyamides will be a valuable addition to our...

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Basic Chemicals

Water shortage prevents re-start of Zuari's fertilizer complex in Goa

Zuari Agro Chemicals (Goa) has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it is unable to re-start its ammonia and urea facility following completion of a maintenance turnaround due to water shortage. The plant was taken offline on 25 March 2013 for an annual...

Petrochemicals

BASF-Total Port Arthur steam cracker to process ethane

Since early April, the BASF-Total steam cracker has been able to produce up to 40% of its ethylene from ethane and another 40% from butane and propane....

Inorganic Chemicals

Incitec Pivot to Offtake Entire Urea Output From Perdaman Project

Incitec Pivot (Melbourne), a leading global nitrogen-based chemicals producer, has signed an agreement with Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilizers (Perth, Australia) to offtake the entire output of urea from Perdaman's previously announced Collie urea plant in...

Plastics

Braskem launches biobased LDPE line

Braskem (São Paulo) has launched its line of biobased low-density polyethylene (LDPE) derived from sugarcane ethanol, the company has announced. Annual production of biobased LDPE will amount to approximately 30,000 m.t./year, and the product will be...

Specialty Chemicals

PPG starts production of protective and marine coatings at Poland facility

PPG Industries says it has started manufacturing protective and marine coatings (PMC) at the company’s facility at Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland. The facility became a part of PPG through the acquisition of Dyrup (Copenhagen), which was completed...

Fine Chemicals/Biotech

India outlines API export norms, to comply with new EU regulations

India’s Ministry of Commerce & Industry (New Delhi) says that it is taking action in order to ensure that active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) exported from India into the European Union (EU) meet the new EU standards and regulations, which will...

Industrial Gases

Linde to Acquire Sri Lankan Gases Firm

Linde says it has offered to acquire all the shares in privately-held Ceylon Oxygen (Colombo, Sri Lanka), and that the offer has been accepted by the major shareholder, Europium, in respect of 95.4% of the shares in Ceylon Oxygen. Ceylon Oxygen, which was...

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