Bayport Polymers LLC (Bay-Pol), a joint venture of Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and Novealis Holdings LLC – a joint venture of Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and NOVA Chemicals Inc. (Calgary, Canada; www.novachem.com) – held the official groundbreaking ceremony…
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.com) recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a new carbon-fiber production facility of its wholly-owned subsidiary Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc. (TCF). The ceremony was held on June 1 at TCF site in Greenwood, South Carolina. “We look…
Toyo Engineering Group (Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a construction project by PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP), Indonesia's largest petrochemical company, and its subsidiary PT Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia (PBI). This project involves the construction of Butene-1 production unit…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) has formed a joint venture with Chinese aerospace parts manufacturer Future Aerospace to establish a materials testing lab in China. Shanghai Future Aerospace Hexcel Commercial Composite Testing Ltd. will be located in Lingang and will…
PolyOne Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio; www.polyone.com) announced the acquisition of PlastiComp, an advanced engineered materials innovator and producer of specialty composites. Founded in 2003 by industry veteran and composite pioneer Stephen Bowen, PlastiComp has steadily grown through its ability to replace…
Further to its announcement earlier this year of a first production plant to manufacture cathode materials for the European automotive market, Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) has now selected a site in Nysa, Poland, for this investment. The plant will…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) started operations at a new electronic-grade sulfuric acid (H2SO4) plant in Jiaxing, China, to serve the country’s growing semiconductor manufacturing industry. Driven by strong demand from customers, the plant has simultaneously started its expansion phase…
Johnson Matthey (London, U.K.; www.matthey.com) announced details of its business strategy in the battery-materials sector, including the commercialization of the new enhanced lithium nickel oxide (eLNO) battery material. eLNO is an ultra-high energy density material, said to compete with emerging materials…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has confirmed a detailed investment review, with its partner Novus International, Inc., to double production capacities at Arkema’s Beaumont Thiochemicals site in the U.S. This project will support the strong global growth in the animal nutrition…
Ascend Performance Materials, LLC (Houston; www.ascendmaterials.com) announced plans for expanding its adiponitrile (ADN) capacity through 2022. In total, Ascend will grow its ADN capacity by 220,000 metric tons (m.t.) by 2022 to meet increasing demand. Ascend completed its first expansion…