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Invista purchases more land for Shanghai nylon-6,6 project

12:57 PM MDT | May 15, 2013 | Lindsay Frost

Invista has announced it has signed a land reservation agreement with the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Development Co. for a previously announced nylon-6,6 polymer site at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park. The agreement is for additional land adjacent...


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European caprolactam margins under pressure

European margins for caprolactam could swing back to a loss as fundamentals for May are expected to be unfavorable, IHS chemical says in its latest Global Nylon Fibers & Feedstocks report. Attempts by one producer to raise prices and improve margins are...

Arkema launches production of biobased nylon-10,10

Arkema has launched production of Rilsan T, a biobased nylon-10,10 processed from castor oil, at the company's production facility at Serquigny, France, the company has announced. The new product possesses a high degree of rigidity, in particular when...

DSM's net profit falls 13% in the first quarter as performance materials sales decline

DSM's core net profit fell 13.4%, to €129 million ($170 million) during the first quarter of 2013, compared with the same period last year when it stood at €149 million, the company announced today. Ebitda, meanwhile, rose by 1.6% from €306...

Saudi Kayan brings polycarbonate plant back online; amines units to follow

Saudi Kayan, a Sabic affiliate, says that its polycarbonate manufacturing facility at Al Jubail has been brought back onstream following maintenance. Kayan announced end of January that it is shutting down a number of plants for “scheduled periodic...

Solvay to build biobased nylon facility in France

Solvay says it has decided to invest an undisclosed sum to build a production unit for the biobased nylon polymer PA6,10 at the company's site at Saint-Fons, France. The plant is intended to meet demand from customers seeking eco-friendly products, the...

Brenntag extends nylon distribution cooperation with Evonik

Brenntag has extended its cooperation with Evonik Industries for the distribution of nylon polymer products in Scandinavia, the company announced today. The region covered by the cooperation now includes the whole of Europe with the exception of Italy...

Rennovia unveils renewable HMD route

Rennovia (Menlo Park, CA) has announced that hexamethylenediamine (HMD) will be its second commercial target, having demonstrated a chemocatalytic process to produce HMD from renewable feedstocks. In conjunction with Rennovia’s renewable adipic acid...

Nizhnekamskneftekhim commissions 60,000-m.t./year ABS unit

Polymer manufacturer Nizhnekamskneftekhim (Nizhnekamsk, Russia) formally commissioned a 60,000-m.t./year acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) unit, during a visit by Rustam Minnikhanov, the president of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, the company...

IHS Chemical: Subdued demand, volatile benzene likely to hurt polycarbonate margins

Polycarbonate continues to face margin pressure as PC production costs increase on tighter supply and higher prices for feedstock benzene, an IHS Chemical report says. The demand outlook is mixed. There are some signs of modest improvement in demand from the...

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