Articles Tagged with ''capacity expansions''

AkzoNobel has officially opened its €11 million powder coatings facility in Chengdu, western China.

Specialty chemicals company Clariant announced an investment by its Additives business to ensure local manufacturing in China of customized, high-end solutions for the plastics, coatings and inks industries.

Rain Carbon Inc. announced the design of new capacity for hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins for its RÜTGERS Resins site in Uithoorn, the Netherlands.

The Fire Retardant Additives (FRA) business unit, part of the Huber Engineered Materials division of J.M. Huber Corp., announced a 20% capacity increase at its manufacturing plant in Bauxite, Arkansas. 

WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS, the life sciences and biotechnology division of the WACKER Group, is strengthening its integrated ketene production at its Burghausen site in Germany.

- Arkema has just successfully brought on stream new Kynar® PVDF capacities at its Changshu platform near Shanghai, China.

Global coatings supplier Hempel inaugurated a new factory in Mina Abdullah in Kuwait, on March 23, 2017.

Oxea has started the construction of a new world-scale propanol unit at its production site at Bay City, Texas.

Munich-based Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its existing production plants for polymeric binders in Germany.

Arkema is investing $90 million on its Clear Lake, Texas, site to replace existing acrylic acid production units with modern facilities using the latest available technologies.