Exxon boosts its petrochemical hub Singapore: The company plans to expand the production capacity for halobutyl rubber and hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins by a total of 230,000 tons/year.

Transporting powders, dusts, and granules requires reliable, clean and safe solutions that allow for flexible and gentle conveying processes — especially in hazardous environments. But there is a simple solution to this complex challenge: vacuum conveyors.

Teijin's Aramid Business announced the completion of a new production line at its Technora production facility in Matsuyama, Japan.

Coperion moves its Chinese extruder production to a new location: By February 2015, the company will have located to a new facility in the Nanjing Jiangning District. It's current production site in China will focus on R&D and Technology, Coperion explained.

Shin-Etsu Chemical announced that it will expand its global production capacity of optical fiber preform, both in Japan and internationally, by investing $ 160 million.

Fluor was selected by Lyondell Basell to perform the engineering and procurement for its propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) project located at its Channelview and Bayport complexes outside of Houston.

Dyneon has put on stream the world’s first fluoropolymer Up-Cycling facility in Burgkirchen/Germany. Together with its cooperating partners, the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, the University of Bayreuth and the institute Invertec the company approaches the development goal of closed-loop manufacturing .

Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of a production site in Denmark which supplies pharmaceutical grade salt for the healthcare industry.

Asahi Glass will increase the PVC production capacity in its plant in Vietnam by 50%. Vietnam is the third largest PVC market in Southeast Asia, and the PVC demand is growing at the similar level as the country’s GDP.

Lanxess modernises its synthetic rubber business: after recent plans to introduce an EPDM bioplastic, the company now announced its intention to modernise the future headquarter facility of its global EPDM headquarter in Geleen, the Netherlands.