Celanese announced the completion of key debottlenecking projects and product transfers at its global manufacturing facilities to support customer demand and project pipeline growth in the company’s engineered materials business.

The market for high density polyethylene (HDPE) plastics grows – but not all regions profit from this devleopment. While US recovers and Asia booms, Europe's HDPE producers shut down sites.

Solvay is expanding its global production capacity in sulfone polymers in India and the United States to address demand growth from mainly the medical and water treatment industries for this high-performance thermoplastic material.

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 .

Wacker Chemie is expanding its existing production plants for polymer binders in South Korea. The Munich-based chemical company plans to build a new spray dryer for dispersible polymer powders at its Ulsan site.

Speciality Chemicals company Lanxess announced plans to produce bioplastic EPDM from renewable sources by the end of 2011 at Triunfo, Brazil.

Eastman Chemical Company and Origin Materials have entered into a non-exclusive license agreement for Eastman to license its proprietary 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid and FDCA derivatives production technology from renewable resources to Origin Materials.

Emerging economies, solar power investments and the shale gas boom are all working together to fuel the Vinyl Acetate Monomer (VAM) market, states a new report by GBI Research.

With their high level of functionality and minimal space requirements, Robolux multi-port valves ensure compact processes, facilitate cleaning and increase overall process reliability. To improve their performance even further, they can now be combined with Bürkert’s Element series of actuators and control heads to provide an good base for the decentralized automation of hygienic processes.

To optimize their raw material and energy consumption, more and more plant operators measure required data such as concentration, density or viscosity directly in the process line. The transfer of common laboratory measuring methods into industrial processes often represents a considerable challenge.