Trinseo has signed a definitive agreement with The Dow Chemical Company to acquire latex production facilities and related infrastructure at Rheinmünster, Germany. Consideration for the transaction is approximately $ 44.9 million in the form of assumed pension liabilities for transferred employees.

Evonik is reorganizing its business for high-performance polymers within the polyamide group. The specialty chemicals company has already begun construction of a new polyamide 12 (PA 12) facility complex and is expanding its production of transparent polyamides at the Marl Chemical Park. As part of the reorganization process, the company will withdraw entirely from the polyphthalamide (PPA) business at the Witten site.

Although oil production has reached historic levels, the gradual shift in the fuel mix affects the global energy bill: New and alternative energies as well as unconventional natural gas (shale gas) drive the transition away from oil and coal. With Venezuela and Mexico, two Latin American states made their way into the global oil producer's top–ten. Still, the OPEC states look optimistically into the future...

Foster Wheeler's Global Engineering and Construction subsidiary provides a new Terrace Wall steam reformer heater for a refinery project in Kazakhstan. The proprietary Terrace Wall technology combines high flexibility with long catalysts life, the company states.

Praxair has started up a hydrogen facility that will recover by-product streams from The Dow Chemical Company’s Freeport, Texas operations.

Dwyer Instruments has announced the release of additional ranges for the differential pressure transmitter, Series 629 HLP. The Series is ideal for monitoring differential pressure in applications such as: air handlers, heat exchangers, chillers, and hydraulic systems, states Dwyer Instruments.

BP sells the next US refinery: The company has agreed to divest its Texas City facility to Marathon Petroleum for US $ 2.5 Billion. Its the second sale of a BP refinery in the US this year.

The contract has been awarded by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd for a 475 KTA polypropylene plant in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India. The agreement includes license, basic engineering and proprietary catalyst supply.

The acquisition is expected to strengthen DSM Material’s’ position in the Indian engineering plastics industry and also allows the firm to grow its business in the country without investing heavily in capital expenditures.

Plastic component in cars and automobiles don't have to look and feel cheap: More and more car manufacturers discover polycarbonate as a material for numerous variants of specially designed car interiors. Companies like Bayer and Gerhardi have developed specially tailored solutions to bring polycarbonates on the street.