Trelleborg’s industrial hose operation launches the Performer AL EC and Trellvac AL EC hoses, which are designed to prevent the dangerous buildup of static electricity in a hose during the pneumatic conveying of powders.

A new range of polyethylene grades have been developed by Ineos and Forever Plast which will be used to recycle over 6.5 billion used bottle caps and develop new high-quality caps.

Located at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, the 1.2 billion dollar adiponitrile facility has recently received the Environmental Impact Assessment and Safety Condition Review approval. Construction of the facility is expected to commence this year.

Domo Chemicals announced that it has completed its acquisition of Solvay’s Performance Polyamides Business in Europe. This Business includes Engineering Plastics operations in France and Poland; High Performance Fibers in France; Polymer and Intermediates operations in France, Spain and Poland.

A report by Brandessence Market Research titled ‘Industrial Catalyst Market’ predicts the global industrial catalyst market to be valued at 24.44 billion dollars by 2025. The report highlights that the Asia Pacific region will dominate the overall market across the globe.

Sabic has announced the construction of the semi-commercial plant in the firm’s Geleen campus in The Netherlands. The facility is expected to be operational by 2021 and will begin by offering materials to the company’s downstream collaborators.

Under the deal, Celanese is expected to acquire all of Nouryon’s global production facilities across Europe and Asia that deal in redispersible polymer powder. Celanese will also take over all the products under the Elotex portfolio along with all customer agreements and technology.

An agreement has been signed between both the parties under which UPM Biofuels will supply Bio Verno, a sustainable raw material to Ineos in order to produce bio-attributed polyolefins in Germany.

The coating of directly compressed mini-tablets in a pan has not been extensively utilised; however this process shows advantages over the fluid bed. The following study investigates the possibility of manufacturing a sustained release multiple dosage form by coating in a solid wall pan mini-tablets produced by direct compression.

Celanese announced preliminary plans to expand its emulsion polymers derivatives business to extend the value of its global acetyl chain. The expansion projects include sites in Nanjing, China and Geleen, Netherlands.