Southeast Asia has become a hotbed of activity in the oleochemicals production space. This is due to a combination of factors: the abundant availability of raw materials, escalating consumer preference for vegetable-based products, and low ...
Dairy Home, a leading dairy producer, has agreed to use bioplastics for all of its yoghurt packaging, in a deal struck with NatureWorks Asia Pacific, an affiliate of PTT Global Chemical. Heralded as the first such deal sealed with an ...
Tags: Chemicals, Green Chemicals
PTT Global Chemical revealed its operating performance in the third quarter of 2013, which showed increasing profits even againt the impact of three major events which had placed constraints on its operations, the incidents included an oil ...
Tags: PTT Global Chemical, Textile
SK innovation, one of the world's leading energy and petrochemical companies, and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, announced an agreement to develop a new process technology for the production of 1,3 ...
Tags: SK&Lanztech, Butadiene Technology
In recent years, companies around the world have faced a number of difficulties in their operations, such as the rising price of petroleum, the shortage of energy, the Eurozone debt crisis, increasing labour costs, environmental pollution, ...
Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) is a commodity product and used as feedstock in polyester industries and PET bottle industry. As such, the market for MEG generally moves in line with the polyester industry, especially in China where the need ...
Dutch food ingredients firm CSM expects to make a major progress on the sale of its bakery unit by early 2013. The company is currently undertaking preparatory work to divest the unit. CSM's bakery unit, which supplies ready-made muffins ...
Tags: ready-made muffins and croissants, bread and pastry mixes
Purac has launched new Listeria Control Model, an online predictive modelling tool designed to control Listeria. According to the company, the software combines a wide range of food parameters with more than 2,500 Listeria growth curves. ...
Tags: new Listeria Control Model, online predictive modelling tool
US-based NatureWorks is set to build a new manufacturing plant in Thailand after announcing a $150m (€108.7m) investment from PTT Chemical, Thailand’s largest chemical producer. NatureWorks, which until now was wholly owned by ...
Tags: PTT Chemical