AkzoNobel has invested in a new production line for water-based texture paints at its Songjiang site in Shanghai, China. 

American Colors Inc. announced plans to expand its facility in Sandusky, Ohio, with a 12,500-square-foot manufacturing addition. 

OCSiAl is launching a graphene nanotube synthesis facility near Belgrade, Serbia, in the first half of 2023. 

Quiminutri Especialidades Químicas, a subsidiary of the IGM Resins Group, has a new name: IGM Resins do Brasil. 

INEOS Acetyls has started a feasibility study into a world-scale acetic acid and derivatives plant on the Gulf Coast. 

Birla Carbon recently announced an additional 200 kMT capacity expansion across key markets.

Colonial Chemical Inc. held a groundbreaking earlier this year for a new specialty chemicals manufacturing plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. 

BASF has expanded its Automotive Coatings Application Center at the Coatings Technology Center in Mangalore, India. 

Specialty chemicals provider Orion Engineered Carbons announced that it will complete its gas black expansion in Germany at plants in Dortmund and Cologne by early 2023.

Wacker Chemical Corp. (WACKER) recently held a grand opening of its new Innovation Center and Regional Headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.