Announced in May 2017, the new manufacturing facility is scheduled to be operational by 2020, and will extend Cabot’s long-term relationship with Dow while furthering the company’s position as producer of fumed silica.

Chiyoda Corporation has signed a MOU with Hazer Group and under the terms of the agreement, the Hazer Process will be adopted to develop low emission hydrogen production facilities in Japan.

Coperion moves its Chinese extruder production to a new location: By February 2015, the company will have located to a new facility in the Nanjing Jiangning District. It's current production site in China will focus on R&D and Technology, Coperion explained.

Shin-Etsu Chemical announced that it will expand its global production capacity of optical fiber preform, both in Japan and internationally, by investing $ 160 million.

Fluor was selected by Lyondell Basell to perform the engineering and procurement for its propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) project located at its Channelview and Bayport complexes outside of Houston.

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 .

The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is a vital process for developing countries that are yet to establish laws regarding chemicals. The Cefic report suggests that the new trade strategy between EU-Africa can be seen as an opportunity to improve chemical safety in the region.

Edward L. Doheny II is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Sealed Air Corporation. Previously, he has held numerous top management posts at Joy Global, and Ingersoll-Rand.

Nader Ibrahim Alwehibi and Thilo Mannhardt have been proposed by Clariant’s Board of Directors. The new candidates will replace the company’s current Board members Khaled Homza A. Nahas and Carlo G. Soave.

Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of a production site in Denmark which supplies pharmaceutical grade salt for the healthcare industry.