- Melamine plans.
UCB and DSM have both made separate plans for melamine resin facilities in China. UCB, through its Surface Specialties business, will build a new melamine coating resins production plant in Shanghai, to meet the increasing demand. The plant, which will have an initial capacity of over 12,000 tpa, is due ......
- PLANTS AND PROJECTS
Ciba's R&D Facility in Shanghai Targets Application Formulation Ciba Specialty Chemicals' (Basel, Switzerland; www.cibasc.com) $20 million R&D Center in Shanghai is now open. The center's mission is to combine expertise in organic synthesis, physical chemistry, polymer chemistry, photochemistry, and analytical chemistry with application and formulation sciences to create new products ......
- Boosting resins.
Asahi Denka are set to develop Chinese operations in resin additives, which are mixed with resins to improve resin properties. The firm will build two new plants, one in Shanghai and another in Jiangsu Province, with Taiwanese chemical giant Chang Chun Group. Combined investment in the plants will come to ......
- BASF celebrates amino resins plant in
Shanghai.
BASF has celebrated the start of the commercial production of its amino resins plant located at BASF Auxiliary Chemicals in Pudong, Shanghai, China. Dr Reinhard Leppkes, group vice president, Performance Chemicals for Coatings, Plastics and Specialities said, 'with this production facility, we are now much closer to our customers with ......
- China continues to draw investment from chemical and plastics makers
Chemicals and plastics firms continue to pour huge investments into the Chinese market. General Electric is making a major push into China and its GE Plastics division is high on the priority list. GE's CEO Jeff Immelt recently said the company expects its revenues to double in China in four ......
- Chemical pricing & supply report
Domba Mas Group will build a new olechemical plant in Kuala Tanjung in North Sumatra, to meet the increased demand for fatty acids from its primary customer Procter & Gamble. The new plant will have an annual output capacity of 120,000 tons of fatty alcohols per year and will make ......
- Two years is a short time in the world of powder
coatings.
Two years ago, at the time of the first Powder Coatings Europe conference and exhibition, the market for powder coating polyester resins was dominated by DSM Resins of Chemicals of Belgium, and they were the prime innovators of new polyester technology. Sid Harris looks at how it's changed since then....