LANXESS AG has completed the move of its Group headquarters from Leverkusen to Cologne. With its approximately 1,000 employees, it now occupies the LANXESS Tower at Kennedyplatz 1 in the district of Deutz. The speciality chemicals company ...
Tags: water treatment, resins
The China Textile Industry Association recently organized a workshop in Beijing on zero-discharge of harmful chemicals (ZDHC). At the workshop, China Textile Industry Association vice president Sun Rui Zhe spoke about environmental ...
At the end of July 2013, the Swabian knitted fabrics manufacturer, Mattes & Ammann GmbH & Co. KG, became the first textile company in Germany and the EU economic area to be awarded the OEKO-TEX Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) ...
Tags: STeP Certificate, Mattes&Ammann
Product roadmap unveiled ahead of Frankfurt Motor Show later this month. Osram says that it will start offering organic LED products for automotive lighting applications as soon as 2014, and expects series production of vehicles ...
Tags: Osram, OLED Deployment
AkzoNobel has announced plans to phase out the production of organic peroxides at its site in Deventer, the Netherlands by the end of 2016. Under the plans, the production activities currently carried out in Deventer will be moved to other ...
Tags: Akzonobel Plans, Construction
Asahi Kasei Chemicals has plans to construct a plant in China for Duranol polycarbonatediol (PCD), an intermediate for high-performance polyurethanes. PCD is used to make high-performance polyurethanes with characteristics such as ...
South Korea's HC Petrochem plans to further cut runs at its No 2 aromatics plant at Daesan to 70% from early next week, due to weak production margins for paraxylene, a company official said Thursday. "Operating at 70% capacity is the ...
Tags: Chemicals, HC Petrochem
Huntsman Textile Effects is leading the way by proactively engaging textile mills and brands in Bangladesh to reduce environmental footprint and to drive sustainable excellence to compete in the global market. Raking in $20 billion ...
Nafine Chemical Industry (SZSE: 000737) announced on August 28 that its wholly-owned Sichuan Tongqing Nafine will execute sole sale of sodium sulfate products produced by Sichuan Rongxing Chemical with its existing sales network and brand ...
Tags: Chemicals
US spot paraxylene was assessed at a five-month high of $1,460/mt FOB US Gulf Coast on Wednesday. The last time spot paraxylene was seen higher than this level was on March 21, when it was assessed at $1,475/mt FOB USG, according to ...
Tags: Chemicals, paraxylene
European linear low density polyethylene C4 contract prices logged a Eur20/mt ($26.50/mt) gain on the week to touch a four-and-a-half month high of Eur1,450-1,455/mt FD Northwest Europe, buoyed by tight supplies and oil price spike, sources ...
Tags: LLDPE, Chemicals, polyethylene
Some new evidences for the existence of element 115 have been presented by a team of Swedish scientists. The evidence was published Tuesday in the U.S. scientific journal "Physical Review Letters". The element is highly radioactive and ...
Tags: existence of element, Chemicals
The UK's monthly thermal coal consumption fell to a 21-month low in June, with the country's power plants burning just 2.99 million mt, down 22% on the month and 11% on the year, according to data released Thursday by the Department of ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Huntsman, a manufacturer and marketer of differentiated chemicals, has completed the acquisition of the business of Oxid, for about $75m. Oxid manufactures and markets specialty urethane polyols under the trademark Terol, and distributes ...
Tags: Huntsman, Oxid Business
Shell's recent announcement that it is seeking additional feedstock supplies for its proposed western Pennsylvania petrochemical facility is only one major roadblock that the facility needs to circumvent in the next few years, a Platts ...