Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com) has announced that it will expand its manufacturing capabilities at the company’s Suzano, Brazil, facility to include Celstran long-fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFRT) production. The Celstran expansion is expected to be operational by mid-2015. This new…
Albemarle Corp. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.albemarle.com) and Rockwood Holdings, Inc. have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Albemarle will acquire all outstanding shares of Rockwood in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $6.2…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Jiangsu Zhongneng Polysilicon Technology Development Co. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited (GCL-Poly), have signed a letter of intent to establish a joint venture for the production of fumed…
EuroChem (Moscow, Russia; www.eurochem.ru) has announced the launch of phosphate ore production at the Kok-Jon phosphate rock deposit in the Jambyl region, Kazakhstan. The EuroChem project in Kazakhstan has already produced around 20,000 metric tons (m.t.) of phosphate ore, which…
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodridge, Ill.; www.elevance.com) has announced a new collaboration with Genting Plantations Berhad through Genting Integrated Biorefinery Sdn Bhd (GIB), to be located in the Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) in Lahad Datu, Sabah, Malaysia. The…
The Polynt Group, a producer of polymer intermediates and specialties, and an Investindustrial portfolio company, has announced its intention to acquire CCP Composites from Total S.A. (Courbevoie, France; www.total.com), the French integrated oil-and-gas company. CCP Composites manufactures unsaturated polyester resins,…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland; www.sika.com) has opened a new plant in Aparecida de Goiânia, state of Goiás, mid-western Brazil, which is the seventh plant in this country. The new plant will supply the construction industry in Goiás, one of the…
The current list of chemical industry projects designed to take advantage of the growth in shale gas production has grown to 188 projects, according to list maintained and updated weekly by the American Chemistry Council (Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). In March…
Alpek S.A.B. de C.V. (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico; www.alpek.com) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have announced that they have signed agreements concerning the EPS (expandable polystyrene) and PU (polyurethane) business activities of their Polioles joint venture in Mexico,…
ICL’s Spanish subsidiary, ICL Iberia (Catalonia, Spain) and AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the longterm production and marketing of vacuum salt and white potash. The MOU calls for the production and…