Global styrenics producer Ineos Styrolution, announced plans to increase its compounding capacity for engineering plastics by an additional 34,000 metric tonnes per annum at its Moxi plant located in Gujarat, India.

Dream Production is a new approach to making stuff that dreams are made of (at least if you are a chemist): Industry and scientists are working together on a project to produce chemical feedstock from CO2 which is extracted from power station flue gas emissions. The underlying reaction is revolutionary, but there is uncertainty surrounding the economic viability of the process. It remains to be seen whether this time the vision is more than just a dream.

Mitsui Chemicals and Prime Polymer announced that the expansion of production capacities has been completed and started up.

Mitsui chemicals introduced a plant-derived material for the production of high-refractive index lenses. This is part of the company’s efforts to shift from fossil to biomass resources.

Fluor just announced the signing of an EPC Contract for an all new Saudi-Arabian polymers project. Fluor officials see trend towards an emerging polymer industry in the Middle-East.

The heroic age has passed. Very little revolutionary process technology has emerged in the chemical industry in recent years. No pioneering achievements like Haber-Bosch. Nevertheless, the labs are still alive and well — a journey to the world of developers and innovation.

India's booming economy fires the demand for plastics and polymers - butalso the domestic production of basic materials. In 2012, India accounted for nearly ten percent of global ethylene production, recent figures show...

Badger announced that Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical has selected the company’s proprietary technology for a 1.200 kta grassroots ethylbenzene / styrene monomer (EB/SM) plant being built in Daxiaoyushan Island, China.

Asahi Kasei concluded a joint venture agreement with China National Bluestar a subsidiary of Chem China. Furthermore, the company announced plans to increase the capacity of its microfibre suede production in Japan.

Solvay will begin producing high-performance polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) polymers in the United States early next year, to support its composite materials business in meeting growing aerospace demand.