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TAIWAN

DuPont ups Taiwan LED production capacity
DuPont says it has expanded its ability to produce and supply its CoolLam thermal substrate products, used in LED products, by 7 times its previous level, the company says. The Hsinchu, Taiwan-based product expansion is to better serve its customers in...

Siam Cement’s chemicals unit reports huge rise in profits
SCG Chemicals, the chemical subsidiary of Siam Cement Group (SCG; Bangkok), reports a more than doubling in profits for the first quarter of 2013 compared with the year-ago quarter, to 2.63 billion baht ($91 million), mainly because of better margins, SCG...

DuPont inks MCC deal
DuPont is expanding its microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) product lines through an extended agreement with Mingtai Chemical (Bade City, Taiwan), a leading manufacturer of MCC. The agreement includes development, production, distribution, marketing, and sale of...

Report: EU lets antidumping duties lapse on PET from 5 Asian countries, renews antisubsidy duty on PET from India
The European Union decided during a plenary session at Strasbourg, France, to let lapse a set of antidumping duties on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), imposed in 2000 on product imported from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand, according to a...

BASF, Evonik, Mitsubishi, Mitsui ink LOI with CPC
BASF, Evonik Industries, Mitsubishi Chemical, and Mitsui Chemicals have signed a letter of intent with CPC (Taipei, Taiwan) to develop production of high-value specialty petrochemicals, CW has learned. One source told CW on the sidelines of the recent Asia...

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KOREA

Canadian firm to build gallium chemicals facility in South Korea
Specialty metals and chemicals producer 5N Plus (Montreal) will invest an undisclosed amount to build a gallium chemical facility in South Korea, the company has announced. The investment will "demonstrate our commitment to serve our customers wherever...

Songwon's 3-year strategy pushes growth in OPS activities
Songwon Industrial's (Ulsan, South Korea) growth strategy for the next three years emphasizes the development of the company's one pack system (OPS) business, said Maurizio Butti, COO of Songwon, during a press conference held earlier this week at...

Songwon appoints new global business manager for specialty antioxidants and new products
Joachim Bayer Songwon Industrial (Ulsan, South Korea) says it has appointed Joachim Bayer as the new global business manager for the company’s specialty antioxidants and new products business, effective 1 June. Joachim Bayer will take...

Songwon reports huge rise in quarterly profits
Songwon Industrial (Ulsan, South Korea) reports a more than 7-fold increase in net profits for the first quarter compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, to 7.72 billion South Korean won ($6.85 million). First-quarter sales decreased 0.2%...

Korean companies report mixed results for the first quarter
Leading Korean chemical companies report mixed financial results for the first quarter of 2013. LG Chem posted a 10.6% decline in net profits for the first quarter compared with the year-ago period, to 340.4 billion South Korean won ($308 million)...

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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...

Tosoh shuts down ethylene amines plant, citing oversupply
Tosoh says it has decided to shut down one of the three ethylene amines production lines at the Nanyo complex at Yamaguchi, Japan. Recent global additions of ethylene amine plants have disrupted the ethylene amine supply-demand balance, softened...

Connell Brothers and Struktol sign distribution agreement for Japanese market
Connell Brothers (San Francisco), a division of Wilbur-Ellis (San Francisco) and a leading marketer and distributor of specialty chemicals and industrial ingredients in Asia/Pacific, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Struktol Company of...

Takeda is the first pharma company in Japan to use bioPE bottles
Takeda Pharmaceutical (Osaka) says it will start using biopolyethylene (bioPE) bottles as the packaging container for the hypertension treatment product Azilva. The company is the first to use bioPE bottles as the primary packaging for pharmaceutical products...

Tosoh hikes synthetic zeolite capacity, aims for top market share of high-silica zeolite
Tosoh says it will expand capacity for high-silica zeolite (HSZ), one of its synthetic zeolite lines, at the company’s Nanyo, Yamaguchi Prefecture complex in Japan. The project is designed to meet growing demand for auto emissions catalysts.   HSZ...

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