Saudi Arabia ventures further into the downstream business: Regulatory authorities had recently approved plans of the joint–venture company Saudi Butanol Company (Sabuco), to build the world’s largest butanol plant in Jubail...

Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business has completed a $ 10 million investment at its LeMoyne sulfur derivatives plant in the US, which supplies ingredients used in several major industries.

How is the rubber contained in a dandelion’s milky white fluid formed? A team led by scientists from Münster University and from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, IME, (Münster branch), has now identified proteins which play a key role in the production of rubber in the plant.

The specialty materials company Celanese sees the growing demand for low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) paints in Southeast Asia and will meet this with a new vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) emulsions production unit.

Air Liquide, one of the world's biggest air separation companies, has lined up an investment of about US $2 billion to ramp up production in India over the next 10 years. The investment would be pumped in through the company's Indian subsidiary, Air Liquide India located in Delhi.

Nova-Institute publishes the first results of a multi-client market survey of the international bioplastics market: 25 companies have developed production capacity at 30 sites worldwide of over 180,000 tons of polylactic acid (PLA), one of the leading bio-based plastics. PLA is used mainly in packaging, but it also has a large number of other durable applications.

Gharda Plastics, the performance polymers division of Gharda Chemicals, launched its specialty lubricious solution for industrial and business appliances. Now the company wants to boost it's polymers production capacity with a new process plant...

BASF started the construction of a new plant for the production of the base material DHDPS (dihydroxy diphenyl sulfone) in Ludwigshafen, Germany in mid January this year.

The mega ADN project is estimated to cost more than 1 billion dollars and is expected to begin construction in 2020, and commence operations by 2022. ADN is important ingredient in the production of nylon 6,6, a versatile polymer used in various applications.

Sasol has inaugurated its new ethylene purification unit, known as the Ethylene Purification Unit 5 (EPU5), in Sasolburg/South Africa. Located at the Sasol Polymers Plant in Sasolburg, the R1.9 billion ethylene purification unit aims to address the growing demand for polyethylene material. According to Sasol, the plant will also ensure better utilisation of the company’s existing downstream polyethylene facilities.