- Air Products and Wacker plan for Brazilian
venture.
Air Products Polymers, a joint venture of Air Products and Chemicals, and Wacker-Chemie, Munich, Germany, has announced its intent to build a world-scale vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) emulsions facility in Brazil. The new plant, targeted to be on-stream in 2003, will provide emulsions to the region's expanding adhesives market. Air Products ......
- Air Products plan for new Brazilian
venture.
Air Products Polymers, a joint venture of Air Products and Chemicals, and Wacker-Chemie, Munich, Germany, has announced its intent to build a world-scale vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) emulsions facility in Brazil. The new plant, targeted to be onstream in 2003, will provide emulsions to the region's expanding adhesives market. Air Products ......
- Dow and Crystalsev's sweet
deal.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Dow Chemical Company and Crystalsev, one of Brazil's largest ethanol players, have announced plans for a world-scale facility to manufacture polyethylene from sugar cane. Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, Dow and Crystalsev will create a joint venture in Brazil to design and build ......
- Polymer Supplies. (Classified -- Chemical & Raw
Materials, Etc).
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- PLANTS AND PROJECTS
Dow Opens First Commercial Plant to Produce Versify Polymers The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI; www.dow.com) has launched the first commercial plant for its new family of specialty propylene-ethylene copolymers manufactured under the Versify tradename. Launched in February 2004, these plastomers and elastomers offer improved flexibility, softness and other characteristics ......
- Plants and projects
CPChem Opens Ryton PPS Compounding Facility Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. (CPChem; The Woodlands, TX; www.cpchem.com) has started manufacturing Ryton polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) compounds at its new 49,000ft2 compounding facility in La Porte, TX. The facility will supply North and South American customers with 15 million lb/yr of Ryton PPS, an ......
- PLANTS AND PROJECTS
Technip Awarded Contract for Vietnam's First Grassroots Refinery Vietnam oil & Gas Corp. (Petro Vietnam; Hanoi; www.petrolimex. com.vn/english) has awarded Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) a lump-sum turnkey contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of Vietnam's first crude oil refinery. The plant, to be based in Dung Quat, will offer ......