Songwon of Korea buys the speciality chemicalsoperations of Indian SeQuent Scientific: The acquisition includes Sequent's entire polymer stabilizer business and one production site in Panoli, Gujarat, together with the local R&D team.

Storing fluctuating and delivering stable electric power supply are central issues when using energy from solar plants or wind power stations. Here, efficient and flexible energy storage systems need to accommodate for fluctuations in energy gain. Scientists from Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials (DWI), RWTH Aachen University and Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea., now significantly improved a key component for the development of new energy storage systems.

Dupont is investing more than $ 80 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province in East China. The facility will produce compounded high-end engineering plastics and adhesives to serve customers in transportation, electronics, industrial and consumer products markets.

Lanxess is investing in its ion exchange resin production facility at the Leverkusen, Germany, site. The company is optimizing its process technology and operating efficiency for a eight-figure Dollar amount. The project is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2019.

“Flexible, Fast and Future Factory” — the F3 Factory is a vision for the future of chemical production. Ambitious projects such as these need partners that can keep the time. Flexibility, speed and efficiency are demanded from plant and components alike — automation suppliers therefore have to leave the trodden path ...

Once completed, the new facility is expected to produce 100,000 metric tonnes of acrylic acid per year. This move will enable the Group to increase its total global production capacity to 980,000 tonnes per year.

Expansion of the plant has been undertaken to meet the demands of the customers as well the firm’s partners. The facility is responsible for the production of Carbopol polymers and Pemulen polymeric emulsifiers.

BASF and Sinopec have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Beijing to further strengthen their partnership in upstream and downstream chemical production in China.

Wacker announced plans for a collaboration with Dynaplak, a Dutch manufacturer of biobased raw materials for agricultural and industrial applications. Together, the two companies want to develop hybrid binders based on starch and polymers.

Lanxess announced plans to strengthen its global asset base for flame retardant additives with investments of around $ 226 million over the next three years.