BASF inaugurated its new resin and electrocoat plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) in Shanghai. In line with BASF’s approach to stay close to customers worldwide, this new plant will further strengthen BASF’s ...
India’s Reliance Industries (RIL) will be commissioning a Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plant and a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) resin plant at Dahej in the western state of Gujarat. The PET plant that has been built with ...
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Coatings company PPG Industries has completed the construction of its $40m plant in Sumaré, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The 65,000ft2 plant will produce resin on-site. Resins produced at the Brazilian facility will be used to produce PPG's ...
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Thailand based and global fibres and petrochemicals producer, Indorama Ventures (IVL) is pulling out of an agreement to acquire SASA Polyester Sanayi AS (SASA) in Turkey. In a Thailand stock exchange filing, Indorama said both sides have ...
Tags: DMT, staple fibers, filament yarns, Textile
BASF broke ground today on a new resin and electrocoat (e-coat) plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in Shanghai. With its operation scheduled to commence in the second half of 2015, the plant will help to address the increasing ...
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German chemical company BASF has commenced the construction of its new resin and electrocoat (e-coat) plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in Shanghai. This move by the company is to address demand for coatings solutions in ...
Tags: Automotive Resin, Auto Parts
BASF is investing around €7 million to expand and optimize the resin production at its Münster site. Resin is an important intermediate for the production of all paint materials. The capacity expansion supports the company’s ...
Thierry Le Hénaff, Arkema’s Chairman and CEO, inaugurated Arkema’s first R&D Center in China on Thursday October 17 on the Changshu industrial site in the presence of the Chinese authorities. At the cutting edge of ...
BASF is investing approximately €90 million to set up a world-scale production plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in Shanghai, China. The new plant will produce high performance resins and electrocoat (e-coat). The start-up ...
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German chemical firm BASF is investing about EUR90m to build a new plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China, for producing resins and electrocoat (e-coat) for use in automotive coatings. Scheduled to commence production during ...
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PPG Industries recently held a ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new automotive coatings development and application center in Tianjin, China. This facility is the first of its kind locally, and it will focus on the development of ...
Tags: PPG, Coatings Development, Coatings
Hambana Petrochemicals has announced plans to set up a $137.39m bottle grade polyethylene terepthalate (PET) packaging resin plant in the investment zone adjacent to Chinese-funded port in Sri Lanka. The company, which is promoted by ...
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The Egger Group has in the started with preparatory building measures for a new replacement adhesive/impregnating plant at the particleboard plant in Hexham, which trades as Egger UK. The adhesive resins produced at the new plant, which is ...
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Scholle has announced the sale of its Vacumet Plastics Division in Austell, Georgia to Indian Polyester film producer Polyplex’s US subsidiary, as part of an agreement. The acquisition, which is expected to close in July 2012, is ...
Tags: Vacumet Plastics, packaging solutions, bag-in-box packaging
Tightness in raw material supplies has sent North American prices for PET bottle resin up by an average of 4 cent per pound since Sept. 1. Paraxylene feedstock, in particular, has been in tight supply, according to buyers contacted recently ...
Tags: PET bottle resin