Tag: chemicals

Elastomers expansion in Georgia Kraiburg Corporation (Duluth, Georgia, USA), a business unit of Kraiburg TPE GmbH (Waldkraiburg,Germany), has completed construction and begun production of Thermoplastic Elastomers at their new plant site in Duluth, Georgia.

South Korea's LG Chem is studying whether to build a vinyl chloride monomer plant in China to complement its proposed ethylene dichloride plant in Australia, a company source has said.

ARCA-Regler GmbH (Tönisvorst, Germany), has delivered about one hundred valves via its subsidiary von Rohr ARCA BV (Eerbeek, The Netherlands) to the Netherlands.

BASF has received approval from the Chinese State Council to build a new integrated production facility for polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF®) and tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park at Caojing, Shanghai, China.

When Worcester Controls' valves and Norbro actuators were installed at a fine chemicals manufacturing plant in Middlesbrough in 1997 they had a target to achieve one million uninterrupted cycles.

Industrial gas suppliers Air Liquide and Praxair plan to invest USD 100 million by 2005 in a venture supplying gas to a mammoth Shanghai chemical industry park.

Russian oil major Lukoil is to invest USD 150 million in the construction of an oil product terminal in the port of Vysotsk (Leningrad region), Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov said.

Carpenter Technology Corporation, through its subsidiary Talley Metals Technology Inc., is now producing several grades of high-strength stainless steel rebar that have been used for concrete reinforcement in a wide range of construction projects where structures require long term resistance to the attack of chlorides from the concrete, road salt and harsh marine environments.

Air Liquide will invest in a hydrogen-production unit on BASF’s site at the port of Antwerp, Belgium.

Japan's Kobe Steel has expanded its scrap and recycling business from metals to plastics by signing an agreement in early June with Belgium chemical producer Solvay for promoting the latter's PVC recycling know-how in Japan.