M&G Polymers have just completed their acquisition of Rhodia-ster S.A. of Brazil from Rhodia.
Included in the acquisition were all the equity interests in Rhodia-ster including production assets:
A 200kt PET...
Sasol have just commissioned their new R1.16billion butanol plant in Sasolburg, South Africa.
Using technology licensed from Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical Corp, the plant has an capacity to produce 150,000 tons of...
Noveon and PolyOne have joined forces to develop and distribute a line of Electrostatic Dissipative (ESD) compounds for the electronics industry. Together the two will be able to offer industry the broadest range of stat...
Konarka Technologies has just acquired Quantum Solar Energy Linz from Linz AG. In the process they have become the world leader in organic photovoltaics.
Quantum Solar will be renamed Konarka Austria Forschungs- u. En...
German chemical manufacturer Hoechst has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $12 million fine for conspiring to fix prices for monochloroacetic acid between 1995 and 1997.
Monochloroacetic acid is used in plastic additiv...
BASF have just increased the output of two of its operations.
Production capacity of their Ulsan/Korea polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF) plant has been boosted from 30,000 tons per year to 40,000 tons per year by debottle...
Since first being unveiled as a concept car in Paris in 2000, the Porsche Carrera GT has been aimed purely at the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. The new Porsche which will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March...
A consortium involving LG Chem and Honan Petrochemicals Corp have emerged as the most likely to acquire troubled Hyundai Petrochem who have been looking for a buyer since early last year.
The consortium was selected a...
DSM and Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. have agreed to form an alliance with the purpose of developing high performance materials using single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Single-walled carbon nanotubes are also known as buc...
Mitsubishi Chemical have agreed to transfer their share of BASF Dispersions, (a the joint venture between Mitsubishi Chemical and BASF) to BASF Japan.
The two companies have also agreed that BASF will transfer their s...
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