American PPG Industries and Asian Paints (APL) of India recently received an approval from the Indian authorities to expand their coatings joint venture (JV) in India. Now the two companies plan to market protective paints, powders and coatings for Indian industrial liquid, marine, consumer packaging and transportation customers.

A new role for a climate killer: Bayer plans to use CO2 as a source of carbon for the production of polyol for PU-foams. The company now wants to invest around € 15 million in a first industrial production site..

GEA builds a new production plant for home and personal care products in Bosnia Herzegovinia for Violeta. The new facility shall provide a flexible and fully automatic, multi-purpose liquid processing infrastructure, allowing Violeta to create new opportunities in a market that has, to date, been dominated by foreign imports...

A new platform developed by Schneider Electric allows users to access SimSci software from anywhere.

Kemira has signed an agreement to establish a joint venture with Yongsan Chemicals, a privately-owned chemicals company in South Korea. The JV, called New Co, will be located in Ulsan.

The supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology Grace, has contracted to license its Unipol PP Process Technology to Hanwha Total Petrochemical for a new PP production facility in Daesan, South Korea. With a capacity of 400 kilotons per year, the PP line is expected to begin operations in 2021.

Clariant has announced the intention to acquire Plastichemix Industries, a masterbatch business in India, located in Vadodara with production facilities in Rania, Kalol and Nandesari in Gujarat.

On expansion, the JV facility is anticipated to add acetic acid with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year by May 2019. Together the companies also aim to double the current 200,000 tpa vinyl acetate monomer capacity with the addition of a second Vam plant towards the end of 2020.

Solvay starts the production of of specialty polymer compounds in China: The company's compounding plant in Changshu, Jiangsu province, started the production of polyphthalamide (PPA), polyarylamide (PARA) and modified PARA for the country's electronics, automotive, consumer and industrial applications markets.

BASF Catalysts India plans to expand its mobile emissions catalysts production capacity in Chennai by building a new plant. Construction of a new 47,000 square meter facility will begin in December 2013, enhancing the company’s existing emissions catalysts operation with new production lines and manufacturing capabilities...