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VENEZUELA

DSM Opens Premix Plants in Colombia and Ecuador
DSM Nutritional Products says it opened two premix plants at Tocancipá, Colombia; and at Amaguaña, Ecuador, last week. “The quality of premix for the feed sector is crucial to the quality of the livestock markets it serves...

Bayer CropScience Expands Rice-Breeding Program
Bayer CropScience says it has been granted exclusive rights to Fazenda Ana Paula’s (Salvador, Brazil) hybrid rice-breeding program. Financial terms were not disclosed. "Hybrid...

Mendonca Named CEO of Braskem America
Braskem says it has named Luiz de Mendonca CEO of Braskem America (Philadelphia). He succeeds Carlos Fadigas who late last year was named Braskem’s CEO. Mendonca served as CEO of Quattor after it was acquired by Braskem in 2010...

Braskem and Ineos Sign Technology Deal for Projects Including Mexico's Ethylene XXI
Braskem and Ineos Technologies have announced a strategic partnership for polyethylene (PE) technologies covering licenses for Innovene's slurry- and  gas phase-process to produce high-density PE (HDPE) and linear-low density PE (LLDPE)  in future projects. They will jointly conduct R&D programs for slurry and gas-phase PE platforms....

Chemical Industry Weekly News Round-Up, October 15
This Week on CW: U.K. officials have asked the European Commission to postpone the Reach registration deadline for one year. The deadline is currently November 30, though a CW survey has found that most large chemicals firms are prepared for it. Hugo...

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BRAZIL

BASF Starts Up Sodium Methylate Plant in Brazil
BASF has started up a 60,000 m.t./year sodium methylate plant at Guaratingueta, Brazil, the company says. BASF invested “low-double digit million euros” in the plant, which will supply the regional market in South America, it adds. The plant is...

BASF's Crop Protection Pipeline Value Jumps to €2.8 Billion
BASF says the value of its crop protection pipeline increased by €400 million ($525.8 million)  to €2.8 billion, driven mainly by the company’s star fungicide F 500,  which is expected to exceed peak sales of €1 billion. In...

AkzoNobel Invests in Plant to Supply New Pulp Mill in Brazil
AkzoNobel says its Eka Chemicals subsidiary plans to invest €80 million ($105 million) in the construction of a new pulp "chemical island" facility in Brazil. Eka Chemicals, AkzoNobel's pulp and paper chemicals business, will supply the...

Brazil's President Names New Petrobras Chief Executive
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will appoint Maria das Graças Silva Foster to replace Petrobras chief executive...

Sensient Opens Colors and Flavors Facility in Brazil
Sensient Technologies (Milwaukee) has opened a colors and fragrance facility at Jundaí, Brazil. The site includes a state-of-the-art factory, an...

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ARGENTINA

Vale Plans $6-Billion Potash Project for Argentina
The board of directors at mining giant Vale (Rio de Janeiro) has approved 2012 investments of $21.4 billion, including $1.08 billion in 2012 for the 4.3 million m.t./year...

DSM Opens Premix Plants in Colombia and Ecuador
DSM Nutritional Products says it opened two premix plants at Tocancipá, Colombia; and at Amaguaña, Ecuador, last week. “The quality of premix for the feed sector is crucial to the quality of the livestock markets it serves...

Strong Currency Challenges Brazilian Chemical Producers
The rise in value of the Brazilian real is hurting competitiveness, including the Brazilian chemical sector which has the nation’s largest commodity deficit, an estimated $25 billion in 2011, Pedro Wongtschowski, president and CEO of Ultrapar...

Ethylene XXI Project Leads Braskem's Plans for Latin America Growth
Braskem officials say their Latin America plans remain focused on its 65-35 jv with Grupo Idesa (Mexico City), which is advancing development of its 1-million m.t./year complex at Coatzacoalcos. Braskem continues to evaluate a complex in Venezuela but timing...

Sector Fragmentation, High Costs Challenge Brazilian Resin Converters
Brazil´s plastics converters are working to resolve several challenges in an attempt to take advantage of the country´s enormous growth potential, says Jose Ricardo Roriz, president of Brazil´s plastics industry association Abiplast (Sao...

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