http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 8:07:26 EDT BASF says it will set up a new production and development facility at Shanghai for its Cellasto polyurethane (PU) based car components by early 2010. The move will allow BASF... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14724.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT DSM Anti-Infectives (DAI; Delft, the Netherlands) told CW at the recent CPhI fair in Frankfurt that the company plans to focus on China and India for growth and that it aims to implement... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14681.html Wed, 8 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Falling naphtha drags down benzene and toluene prices in Asia... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14666.html Tue, 7 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT PPG Industries says it has acquired the automotive refinish coatings business of Bonny Coating-Made Co. (Guangzhou, China). Terms were not disclosed. The deal includes customer lists, technology, brands... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14592.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT H.J. Heinz says it will no longer use Chinese milk in its baby food products due to a widening scandal over melamine contamination... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14603.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Solvay says it has started up a previously announced polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) micronized powder production facility in the Jiangsu high-tech fluorochemical industrial park at Changshu... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14616.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Vertellus Specialties (Indianapolis) says it will invest approximately $25 million to build a 7,000-m.t./year 3-cyanopyridine plant at Nantong, China, due onstream by the end of 2009. The unit... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14619.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese, says it will build a 7,000-m.t./year Vectra liquid crystal polymer plant at its chemical complex in Nanjing, China. It is due onstream in... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14622.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Privately owned catalyst and custom synthesis firm Chiral Quest (Princeton, NJ) says it will build a cGMP pilot plant and process development center in the BioBay zone, Jiangsu province in... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14627.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT DSM’s Anti-Infectives business says it will close a clavulanic acid production site at Strängnäs, Sweden. The site mainly produces clavulanic acid, which is used in the... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/china/14562.html Thu, 2 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT