TAIWAN Imdex Acquires Australian Chemicals Firm
Drilling products and services company Imdex (Perth, Australia) says it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire all shares in specialty chemicals firm Wildcat Chemicals Australia (Brisbane) for A$1.8 million ($1.6... Connell Bros. Takes Control of Taiwan Operations
International marketers and distributors of specialty chemicals and ingredients, Connell Bros. Company (San Francisco) says it has taken full control of its Taiwan operations, CBC Taiwan, by repurchasing the shares owned by its minority partner Tong Hsing... Rohm and Haas Expands in Taiwan
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, a Rohm and Haas (R&H) subsidiary, says its chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) technologies business will expand production capacity at a CMP pad manufacturing facility at Hsinchu, Taiwan. Investment and capacity details... Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Increases Investment in Taiwan
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials says its chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) Technologies business will invest to expand the production capacity of its Asia-Pacific pad manufacturing facility at Hsinchu, Taiwan. The move aims to meet the growing demand... R&H Opens Two Units Serving the Semiconductor Market
Rohm and Haas (R&H) says it has opened the Asia Technical Center (Hsinchu, Taiwan), focusing on chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) technology, and a $60-million immersion lithography... More Stories » KOREA Imdex Acquires Australian Chemicals Firm
Drilling products and services company Imdex (Perth, Australia) says it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire all shares in specialty chemicals firm Wildcat Chemicals Australia (Brisbane) for A$1.8 million ($1.6... World’s First HPPO Plant Starts Up in Korea
SKC Chemicals Group (Seoul) has begun production of propylene oxide (PO) at Ulsan, Korea. The 100,000-m.t./year facility is the first commercial-scale plant to use novel hydrogen peroxide-propylene oxide (HPPO) technology developed by Evonik Industries and... Honam to Merge with Lotte Daesan
Honam Petrochemical (Seoul) says it will merge with its wholly owned subsidiary Lotte Daesan Petrochemical... World's First HPPO Plant Starts Up in Korea
SKC Chemicals Group (Seoul) says it has begun production of propylene oxide (PO) at its Ulsan, Korea complex. The 100,000 m.t./year facility is the world's first commercial scale plant to use the novel hydrogen peroxide-to-propylene oxide (HPPO) technology... Korean Firms Fined for Price Fixing
Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has fined eight companies a combined won12.7 billion ($12 million) for conspiring to fix prices of... More Stories » JAPAN Vopak Acquires Two Terminals in Japan
Vopak says its Nippon Vopak joint venture has agreed with Mitsui & Co. to... Mitsui to Break Ground on Facility to Develop Methanol Synthetic Process from CO2
Mitsui Chemicals says that it will break ground on a facility to develop a methanol synthetic process from carbon dioxide (CO2) in October, at the company’s site in Osaka, Japan. The move is aimed at developing an... Imdex Acquires Australian Chemicals Firm
Drilling products and services company Imdex (Perth, Australia) says it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire all shares in specialty chemicals firm Wildcat Chemicals Australia (Brisbane) for A$1.8 million ($1.6... Rebuilding in Japan
Mitsubishi Chemical, subject of this week’s cover story (p. 17), offers a glimpse at influences and strategies that are reshaping Japan’s chemical sector. A prolonged domestic slump and the rise of Mideast and China influence in commodity chemical... Quarterly Profits Fall for Major Japanese Chemical Companies
Japanese chemical and petrochemical companies say they had a challenging fiscal first quarter, which ended June 30, 2008. Many firms reported a drop in profits, citing rises in feedstock and energy prices, as well as the slowdown in the global economy... More Stories »
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