SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — German specialty chemicals and plastics maker Lanxess AG will open its seventh factory in Brazil by the end of this year or early 2014. The facility, in Porto Feliz, will include a mega-extruder to make nylon and polybutylene terephthalate compounds.
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Braskem SA, the world's largest biopolymer producer, announced the launch of a new line of green low density polyethylene at the Feiplastic trade show in São Paulo.
WASHINGTON — A new report from the American Chemistry Council anticipates that almost 100 announced plastics and chemicals expansions could create more than 500,000 permanent jobs.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – South Korean additives maker Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd will have its new 7,000 metric ton-per-year OPS plant in Houston go online today, May 21, the company's chief operating officer told Plastics News during the opening day of Feiplastic in São Paulo
SHANGHAI — Bayer MaterialScience AG has officially inaugurated its Asia-Pacific regional innovation hub at the Polymer Research & Development center in Shanghai.
FRANKFURT, GERMANY — In a PlasticsEurope Deutschland briefing last month, the organization's new president Josef Ertl – who is also managing director of Vinnolit – revealed that both production volume and turnover have dropped for German plastic material producers.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA — Specialty chemicals company Lanxess elaborated on its plans to build a red iron oxide pigment plant in Ningbo, at a news conference just before Chinaplas.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA — German plastics maker BASF SE hopes to seed the market for biodegradable plastics in China with a trial program composting household food waste in 100,000 homes in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
PHILADELPHIA — Chemtura Corp., which calls itself a world leader in hot-cast urethane prepolymers, has launched a thermoplastic polyurethane product line under its Ultralast brand.
BAYTOWN, TEXAS — United Steelworkers Local 13-2001 said it has ratified three separate agreements with ExxonMobil's refinery in Baytown.
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