Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC; Tokyo), the international wing of Japan Finance Corporation (Tokyo), says it has signed a loan agreement totaling $30 million, with Lingyou Engineering Plastics (Shanghai), a joint venture set up by Mitsubishi...
Bayer MaterialScience says it has agreed to a close technical cooperation with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Plastic Technology (Nagoya, Japan) and Kyowa Industrial (Sanjo, Japan) in the field of polycarbonate automotive glazing. The three partners aim to...
The global growth in the petrochemicals market is driven by Asia, especially by China and India, and new investments will also be mainly in Asia, say speakers at the final day of the Third Annual India Chemical Industry Outlook Conference in Mumbai...
Lawmakers in the Oregon state senate have voted down a bill that would have barred certain products containing bisphenol A (BPA) from state commerce. The proposal would have restricted sale of beverage containers intended for small children that contain BPA...
NEW YORK, January 11, 2010 – Access Intelligence (News) (AI), owners of SRI Consulting (www.sriconsulting.com) Chemical Week (CW) (www.chemweek.com) and Chemical Engineering portfolios, have finalized the acquisition of Maack Business Services (MBS...
Ube Industries says it will merge its Thai Caprolactam (Bangkok) and Ube Nylon Thailand (Bangkok) subsidiaries effective February 1, 2010, and the merged company will be named Ube Chemicals Asia (Bangkok). Ube holds 91% stake in Thai Caprolactam and Marubeni...
PolyOne says it has acquired substantially all of the assets of New England Urethane (NEU; North Haven, CT) for $12 million. NEU is a custom compounder of high-performance engineering...
The business will be integrated with Celanese's Ticona subsidiary....
Teijin, as part of the previously announced restructuring of its polyester fiber business, says it will sell its 97.9% stake in Teijin Indonesia Fiber (Tifico; Jakarta, Indonesia), a polyester fiber manufacturing company, to four textile manufacturers. The...