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TAIWAN

DSM to Expand Polyamide Capabilities in Taiwan
DSM says it is investing further at the company’s site at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to upgrade and develop the company’s specialty polyamide capabilities for its Novamid and Akulon polyamide engineering plastic business. The Kaohsiung site has been a...

Ube Establishes Subsidiary in Taiwan
Ube Industries says it has established a new subsidiary called Ube Taiwan (Taipei), and the new company will be involved in the market and sales development of Ube products in the Taiwanese market. Ube Taiwan was established in December 2011 and will start...

Avantor Opens Taiwan Tech Center
Avantor Performance Materials (Phillipsburg, NJ), formerly Covidien’s Mallinckrodt Baker unit, says it has...

Kiri Acquires Taiwanese Firm
Kiri Industries (Ahmedabad, India), a manufacturer of dyes and dye intermediates, formerly known as Kiri Dyes & Chemicals informed the Bombay...

BASF Opens CMP Plant in Taiwan
BASF says that by the end of September, it will start a new production plant for chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) products at its KuanYin site in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The plant will produce BASF’s proprietary CMP slurries for advanced semiconductor...

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KOREA

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...

SK Global Chemical Reports Rise in Quarterly Profits and Sales
SK Global Chemical, the petrochemical business of SK Innovation (Seoul), formerly SK Energy, recorded operating profits of won92.2 billion ($83 million) and sales of won3.35 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2011. The petrochemical business recorded operating...

LG Chem Posts a Decline in Profits
LG Chem reported a 13% decline in net profits for the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with the same period of 2010, to won381.8 billion ($340 million) on sales up 12%, to won5.6 trillion...

Total Details Aromatics Project in Korea
Total says that a recently announced aromatics and ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer project by the company's Samsung Total Petrochemicals joint venture will cost a combined $1.8 billion. Samsung Total announced plans recently to build a second aromatics...

ADB Helps Develop Uzbekistan's Largest Petchems Complex
The Asian Development Bank (ADB; Manila) said today that it has approved a loan and political risk guarantees of up to $400 million to help build a previously announced petrochemical complex in Uzbekistan. The investor is Uz-Kor Gas Chemical (Tashkent), a...

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JAPAN

Mitsubishi Chemical: Restart of Kashima Complex Could Take 'Some Time'
Mitsubishi Chemical says that operations at its Kashima, Japan manufacturing complex will not resume for some time because of severe damage to piers at the adjacent port, and to other infrastructure, caused by the earthquake and tsunami that struck the...

Tokuyama Reports Fall in Profits and Sales
Tokuyama (Tokyo) has recorded a 26.4% fall in net profits for the nine months ended December 31, 2011, compared with the year-ago period, to ¥3.9 billion ($50 million). Sales decreased 1.6%, to ¥211 billion, mainly due to the impact of the earthquake...

DIC Reports Fall in Profits and Sales
DIC Corp. (Tokyo) has recorded a 4.5% fall in net profits for the fiscal first nine months ended December 31, 2011, compared with the year-ago period, to ¥15.9 billion ($205 million). Sales for the nine months also decreased by 4.5%, to ¥561.5...

Showa Denko Reports Losses and a Slight Decrease in Sales
Showa Denko recorded net losses of  ¥500 million ($6.5 million) in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with ¥3.3 billion in net profits in the corresponding period of the previous year. Sales and operating income also went down by 0.3% and...

Teijin Announces New Business Plan
Teijin today announced strategies for growth over the next few years, which includes a mid-term business plan for until the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017 and a long-term plan for until the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021. The company aims to record...

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