Japanese food company Ajinomoto will launch its Japanese-style ramen in North America as part of its strategy to bolster its frozen noodles business in the region. While also expanding its frozen foods business in the region, Ajinomoto ...
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Mitsubishi Polyester Film, a subsidiary of Japan-based Mitsubishi Plastics, has selected Jacobs Engineering Group to provide engineering services for the expansion of its polyester film plant in Greenville County, South Carolina, US. ...
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SRF Limited is reportedly investing close to $58m in building a new biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) film production plant in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Of the total investment, around $40m will be provided ...
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Ajinomoto Taiwan, a consolidated subsidiary of Ajinomoto, has started selling amino VITAL GOLD, amino VITAL Amino Protein and amino VITAL Perfect Energy, three sports supplements (total of nine varieties) in Taiwan that can efficiently ...
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Azelis Group and KODA Distribution Group announced that Azelis has signed a binding agreement to acquire U.S.-based KDG, significantly enhancing its position as a leading global specialty chemicals distributor. The transaction remains ...
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Arkema Coating Resins and OMYA, a leading global producer of industrial minerals and a worldwide distributor of specialty chemicals, announced today that they are extending their existing distribution cooperation throughout Europe to ...
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Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, is presenting its customized humidity control solutions in pharma packaging at pharmaceutical networking event, CPhI Worldwide 2015. Standard desiccant products, which Clariant also supplies, ...
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Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, has announced that its healthcare packaging manufacturing facility in Belen, New Mexico, has achieved ISO 15378:2011 certification for products manufactured for healthcare applications, including ...
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Maroon Group, a world-class supplier of specialty additives, resins, pigments, and packaging, continues to expand its U.S. reach with the addition of Chris Stephens as its newest Account Manger to cover the West Region of North America. ...
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Emery Oleochemicals LLC has earned the Certified Biobased Product Label granted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), for six products from the company’s EMEROX range of renewable-based polyols. This certification, ...
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Covestro, a global polymer materials supplier, has a new identity. From September 1, 2015, Bayer MaterialScience is operating under the Covestro name. The company is now legally and economically independent, but will remain a 100 percent ...
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The Valspar Corporation has reported fiscal third quarter 2015 net sales of $1.15 billion, a decrease of 7 percent over the prior year. Total volume was flat as growth in the Coatings segment was offset by the expected decline in the Paints ...
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R.E. Carroll, Inc. distributor of specialty chemicals and petroleum products located in Ewing, New Jersey has acquired JH Calo Company, also a distributor of specialty chemicals located in Westbury, New York. JH Calo will operate as a ...
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BASF and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) will build a new world-scale production plant for highly reactive polyisobutene (HR-PIB) at the site of their existing joint venture, BASF PETRONAS Chemicals Sdn Bhd, in Kuantan, Malaysia. ...
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Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached $25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 ...
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