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Evonik more than doubles venture capital to accelerate innov...

Evonik has launched its second venture capital fund with a volume of EUR 150 million, more than doubling the amount u ...

Evonik’s new polyamide 12 complex fully on schedule

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Evonik has completed the conceptual and basic engineering phase for building its new polyamide 12 (PA12) production c ...

Michelman opens sustainability center in Shanghai

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Michelman celebrates the opening of its new sustainabilty center in Shanghai.

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IMCD opens a coatings application laboratory in Turkey

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IMCD announces the expansion of its technical capabilities with the addition of a new coatings application laboratory ...

BASF to partner with Adani to evaluate investment in acrylic...

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BASF SE, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Adani Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to e ...

Rust-Oleum opens floor coating manufacturing facility in Min...

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Rust-Oleum are marking the opening of a new 110,000 square foot floor coating manufacturing facility in Brooklyn Park ...

BASF and Guangdong provincial government sign framework agre...

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Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, and Lin Shaochun, Deputy Governor of Gu ...

Ineos Styrolution invests in ASA capacity in the Americas

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Ineos Styrolution announced the final investment decision to construct a new 100kt capacity ASA plant at its site in Bayport, Texas.

Interview: “The Innovation Center will serve as our global R...

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In November, Axalta Coating Systems unveiled the largest coatings research and development center in the world in Phi ...

MC-Bauchemie acquires majority of a company in Ethiopia

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By the end of November 2018, an entity of the MC-Bauchemie Group acquired the majority of shar ...

Sudarshan opens application development lab in Europe

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Growth at the Evonik site in Krefeld: the Indian pigment manufacturer starts to operate the fi ...

Wolftechnik completes new company building

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Wolftechnik Filtersysteme has completed its new company building with office tract and high ba ...

Lanxess strengthens global production network for flame reta...

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Specialty chemicals company Lanxess plans to strengthen its global asset base for flame retard ...

Coatings manufacturer Berger makes new major investments

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Two new warehouses and logistics halls as well as a large technology centre for development an ...

BASF and TGPM open Automotive Refinish Competence Center in ...

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Together with Guangdong TGPM Automotive Group Co. Ltd. (TGPM) has opened the Refinish Competence Center (RCC) BASF-TGPM in Foshan, Guangdong Province (China).

Ashland completes expansion of HEC production in China

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Ashland increases its production of hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) in Nanjing, China, by ...

Songwon expands in-house production in South Korea

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Songwon increases the production of its liquid hydroxyphenyl triazine (HPT) UV absorber at its ...

Remmers continues expansion course in Austria

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Following the foundation of subsidiaries in Switzerland and Slovakia, Remmers Group is now str ...

Dow increases methyl cellulose production

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Dow expands its Methyl Cellulose capacity in Germany to meet growing construction chemical dem ...

Akzo Nobel and PPG Industries strengthen their businesses wi...

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Akzo Nobel pursues its course on being a focused paint company and boosts its position in the ...

Hempel opens new R&D Centre of Excellence in Barcelona

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Coatings manufacturer Hempel officially opened its new competence center in Barcelona, Spain, ...