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BP Increase Linear Low Density Polyethylene Output from Scottish Plant

BP has introduced higher rate production runs of linear low density polyethylene at Grangemouth, Scotland, to meet growing market demand. This has been possible due to the successful introduction of a new best-in-class c...

7 Dec 2004

AK Steel Secures Coke Supplies to See it Through Until 2009

AK Steel today said that it had reached agreement for the supply of all of the company’s anticipated coke purchases through the end of 2009. AK Steel internally produces more than 75% of its total annual coke requi...

7 Dec 2004

ArvinMerior Sells Coil Costings Business to Wills Stein and Partners for $162.5m

ArvinMeritor, Inc. announced today that it has sold Roll Coater, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, to an affiliate of Willis Stein & Partners. The cash purchase price of the stock transaction is approximately $162.5 m...

6 Dec 2004

Bayer to Build New 50kTpa Aniline Production Plant in Antwerp

Bayer MaterialScience plans to build a new aniline production plant in Antwerp, Belgium. It is to have a capacity of 50,000 tons/year and reach completion in early 2006. An innovative process will be used for the first t...

6 Dec 2004

Lanxess Invest 7m Euros to Upgrade Chloroprene Rubber Plant

Polychloroprene - an elastomer at the end of its life cycle? " We do not think so" says Ingo Fischer, the new Global Product Manager for Chloroprene Rubber at LANXESS Deutschland GmbH. "Baypren® is sti...

6 Dec 2004

Teck Comminco Granted Patent for Hydrometallurgical Nickel Process

Teck Cominco Limited is pleased to announce that its affiliate, Cominco Engineering Services Ltd (CESL) has been granted a Canadian patent for its hydrometallurgical nickel production process. The new, low-cost process e...

6 Dec 2004

Aviza Technology Introduce Low Temperature Silicon Nitride Deposition Process

Aviza Technology, a leading supplier of production-proven thermal process systems and an industry innovator in atomic layer deposition (ALD), today introduced Satin(TM), a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) p...

6 Dec 2004

BOC Awarded $3.8m to Develop Hydrogen Technology for Fuel Cells

BOC, one of the world's largest industrial gases companies, has been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant for a 3-year, $3.8 million project to develop an advanced hydrogen generation and delivery system. ...

6 Dec 2004

Basell and Sahara Petrochemical to Build Propylene and Propane Dehydration Plant in Saudi Arabia

Sahara Petrochemical Company and Basell Holdings Middle East GmbH today announced the signing of an agreement to construct a 450 KT per year polypropylene plant and propane dehydrogenation unit at Al-Jubail Industrial Ci...

6 Dec 2004

CVRD and Thyssen Krupp to Form a Joint Venture Steel Slab Plant in Brazil

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), the largest producer of iron ore and pellets in the world, and ThyssenKrupp Stahl A.G. (ThyssenKrupp), one of the largest European steelmakers, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

6 Dec 2004

Plastic Logic and Siemens Form Joint Development Agreement for Flexible Displays

Plastic Logic, a leading developer of plastic electronics for flexible display backplanes and sensors, announced today it has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with Siemens Communications, one of the largest pla...

6 Dec 2004

da Vinci Project Complete Construction and Flight Qualification of World’s Largest Reusable Helium Balloon

The Golden Palace.com Space Program Powered by the da Vinci Project announced today that it has completed construction and flight qualification of the “Worlds Largest Reusable Helium Balloon” for its planned ...

6 Dec 2004

Alcan Looking to Divest Its Interest in Aluminium de Grèce

Alcan Inc. announced today that it is now in a period of exclusive discussions, based on a proposal put forth by Mytilineos Holdings S.A. of Greece, for the potential sale of Alcan's interest in Aluminium de Grè...

6 Dec 2004

BASF to Increase Polyurethane Raw Material Output to 450kT Per Year at Antwerp Plant

BASF will expand the capacity of its world’s largest plant for MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) in Antwerp, Belgium, from a current figure of 360,000 metric tons per year to 450,000 metric tons per year. The expa...

6 Dec 2004

Sumitomo and Tosoh to Dissolve Polyethylene Joint Venture

Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (“Sumitomo”) and Tosoh Corporation (“Tosoh”) today announced an agreement to re-organize collaboration on linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) production through the...

6 Dec 2004