http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:13:01 EST IndianOil aims to sign a heads of agreement with two international partners by end of August to build India’s first styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) plant, company sources tell CW. The... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/13319.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Mitsui Chemicals says it has started commercial production of ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber at the company's No. 3 EPDM plant at Ichihara, Japan. The plant has capacity for... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/11916.html Thu, 15 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Dow Chemical says it will shut down its cobalt-polybutadiene rubber (Co-PBR) assets at Berre L’Etang, France. The facility is located within Shell Chemicals’ complex, and is operated... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/10759.html Mon, 10 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EDT New capacity will produce solution-polymerized styrene butadiene rubber.... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/10457.html Thu, 21 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST Singapore has won the race to host Lanxess's previously reported €400-million ($592.8 million) butyl rubber project, local reports say. Lanxess declined to comment on the... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/10252.html Fri, 8 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST SCG-Dow Group, a joint venture between Dow Chemical and Siam Cement (Bangkok), says it will build a specialty elastomers plant at Map Ta Phut, Thailand to supply customers in... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/10105.html Wed, 30 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST The European Commission says that Bayer and Zeon operated a price-fixing cartel for nitrile butadiene rubber.... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/9960.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST DuPont and Dow Chemical are among those affected. Bayer's fine is rescinded because the company cooperated with the commission's investigation.... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/9227.html Wed, 5 Dec 2007 0:00:00 EST Lanxess says it is evaluating three possible sites in Southeast Asia for a €400-million ($540 million) project to build a butyl rubber manufacturing plant: Singapore; Kuantan, Malaysia; and... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/6749.html Wed, 11 Jul 2007 0:00:00 EDT Asahi Kasei Chemicals (AKC), an Asahi Kasei subsidiary, plans to increase production capacity for solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) at Oita, Japan by 10,000 m.t./year. Japan... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/6750.html Wed, 11 Jul 2007 0:00:00 EDT