Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than € 20 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Expancel product line for expandable microspheres.

Uhdenora and Befar Group have signed a contract for the construction of an 80,000 mtpy caustic soda plant at Binzhou City, Province of Shandong, China. The plant will be the world’s first to be based on the NaCl ODC technology owned by Uhdenora.

French plant manufacturer Technip was selected to plan the Construction of a new Chemical Plant for Solvay in China.

The Shaw Group has recently completed services work for the addition of a Shaw proprietary Ultra Selective Cracking (USC) furnace for Indian natural gas company Gail in Pata, Uttar Pradesh.

Evonik announced that it is setting aside € 100 million for the topic of digitalization and is also entering into a strategic partnership with IBM and the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Evonik Industries has dissolved its joint venture with Chinese partner Sanzheng Fine Chemicals. This comprises the cyanuric chloride plants in Yingkou and Chongqing, which supplied the agrochemicals markets in the region. The decommissioned Chongqing site remains with Evonik.

Oxea's new oxo derivatives production in China is well on time: Construction works for the plant have just begun, with completion scheduled for late 2013.

Chevron Phillips Chemical has successfully completed a low viscosity polyalphaolefins (PAO) capacity expansion at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas.

The closure of the initial registration period for the European Union’s REACH chemicals regulation at the end of November 2010 marked the culmination of a period of intense regulatory activity both within Shell and right across the industry.

Indonesia Chemical Alumina (ICA), a joint corporation owned by Showa Denko and mining and metals company Antam, Jakarta, has started commercial operation of its new chemical alumina plant established in the Tayan District, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.