Akzo Nobel and Atul have announced their intention to jointly invest in the production of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in India, which will include setting up a world class MCA plant at Atul's facility in Gujarat.

Anyone planning investment projects in China must follow the clearly-specified rules of the game, otherwise he is pre-programmed to fail. Without support from Chinese Design Institutes, nothing gets off the ground at all in China. The reason for this was illuminated at a DECHEMA information day.

Mc Dermott has signed a land lease agreement with Saudi Aramco to establish the new plant which will be used for large scale fabrication of offshore platforms and onshore/offshore modules.

The leading chemical companies in the world come from Germany and the US: BASF with a turnover of 73.5 billion euros in 2011 was well ahead of US-based Dow Chemical which had a turnover of 46.28 billion euros. Nevertheless, BASF only came 71st in Fortune magazine’s rankings of the world's major corporations. Currently, no company from the emerging economies of India, China or Brazil made it intoi the Top-10---

Late September, Sabic Innovative Plastics has cut the ribbon at its new Ultem polyetherimide (PEI) resin production facility in Cartagena. This event marks a 35 percent increase in Ultem resin capacity for European and global customers.

Prime Polymer has awarded Toyo Engineering with an EPC contract to build a new polypropylene plant at its Ichihara-shi, Chiba site in Japan. On completion, the facility is expected to produce 200,000 tons per year.

Three workers were killed during maintenance works at a German ammonia plant of SKW Piesteritz. The cause behind this accident is still unknown.

PPG has commenced production of automotive OEM sealants at its Tangier plant in Morocco for local vehicle production. The facility is the company’s first automotive coatings production unit in Africa and is expected to produce sealants that offer more flexibility in vehicle design and manufacturing.

Bilfinger has been awarded a 20-million-dollar contract by Boehringer Ingelheim to design, prefabricate, construct, install and commission process equipment for the upstream and downstream processing of the vaccine production at its facility in Lyon-Jonage, France.

Exxon Mobil has made a final investment decision on a multi-billion dollar expansion of its integrated manufacturing complex in Singapore to convert fuel oil and other bottom-of-the-barrel crude products into higher-value lube base stocks and distillates.