Active Minerals International, a supplier of high-quality gellant attapulgite, announced that its latest capacity expansion is ready to start up at the company's operations in Florida.
Beginning in April 2018, Sun Chemical and its parent company, DIC Corp., will increase the production capacity of the DAILUBE® extreme-pressure additives at their plant in Kashima, Japan.
The Fire Retardant Additives business unit, part of the Huber Engineered Materials division of J.M. Huber Corp., announced a significant capital investment to increase production capacity for Martinal LEO fine precipitated alumina trihydrate at its Martinswerk Plant in Bergheim, Germany.
The Lomon Billions Board of Directors has approved an estimated $285 million investment in the construction of two new chloride titanium dioxide manufacturing lines at its existing chloride production site in Jiaozuo, Henan Province, China.
Evonik Industries, Essen, Germany, has opened another production line for specialty polyamide 12 powders of its VESTOSINT brand at its largest global production site in the Marl Chemical Park, Marl, Germany.
Specialty chemical company Clariant completed a project to expand its industrial facility in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, and increased production capacity by around 15%.