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Ineos Styrolution breaks ground for ASA plant in Texas

Ineos Styrolution announces that the company hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its new 100tk ASA (acrylonitrile styrene acrylate) plant in Bayport, Texas.

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Rain Carbon begins commissioning process at new hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins facility in Germany

Rain Carbon, a global producer of carbon-based products, initiated the phased start-up of its hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins production facility in Castrop- Rauxel, Germany.

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IGM announces global expansion in photoinitiator manufacturing

IGM announces global expansion in photoinitiator manufacturing with a new Greenfield site in China and further upgrading of the Mortara, Italy site.

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Lanxess new high performance prepolymers production up and running in Brazil

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has started the production of high performance prepolymers at its site in Porto Feliz, Brazil.

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Interview: “We have and will further invest in our plants”

BASF has ramped up its activities in the additives business. Gops Pillay, President, Dispersions & Pigments, sees solid market growth over the coming five to ten years. The chemical producer has therefore...

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BASF Spain inaugurates its renovated refinish competence centre

The refinish competence centre at BASF Spain in Marchamalo (Guadalajara) is dedicated to teaching body shop technicians, distributors and large automotive companies, all of them customers in Spain and...

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Axalta invests in Landshut, Germany, facility for bonded metallic powder coatings

Axalta announced the expansion of its Landshut, Germany, site, creating a second production facility in the region for bonded metallic powder coatings alongside Axalta’s Montbrison plant in France.

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Akzo Nobel to boost investment in Changzhou powder coatings plant

Akzo Nobel has announced plans to add three new production lines at its Changzhou powder coatings plant in China – the company’s largest facility of its kind in the world.

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BASF launches production line for the functionalisation of films

A film coating plant has been put into operation at BASF's Münster site in Germany.

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Sanitized Preservation AG opens subsidiary in India

Swiss company Sanitized Preservation AG, which specializes in antimicrobial protection of paints and coatings, will open a new subsidiary in India.

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Axalta announces growth strategy for its powder coating business in China

Axalta's new growth strategy is supposed to position the company to more effectively unlock value in the high-end Chinese powder coatings market in the next three years.

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Evonik expands fumed silica capacity

Evonik has started up on schedule its new plant complex in Antwerp for production of fumed silica.

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Flint Group Packaging opens facility in South Africa

Flint Group is designated to strengthen position in the packaging inks segment with the opening of its new facility in Westmead, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. 

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BASF doubles production capacity for adhesive raw material

BASF has doubled its manufacturing capacity for UV acrylic hotmelts by building a second production facility at the Ludwigshafen site in Germany.