February 2013 Archives
Lead Feature
Company News
- BASF reports strong 2012 revenues
- Borealis reports net profit of EUR100 million in Q4 2012
- Lubrizol to partner Sekisui in Thai CPVC facility
- Breyer opens subsidiary in Shanghai
- AkzoNobel stages new strategy to hit financial targets
- Novomer completes run of world’s first large-scale PPC Polyol
- Starlinger opens new Indonesia office
- Songwon Industrial firms up financial structure through syndicated loan
- Clariant repositions portfolio, reports full-quarter profitability
- Solvay to build a new silica plant in Poland
- Milacron to buy Mold-Masters from 3i
- Borealis bids to acquire Total’s shares of N-fertiliser firm
- Equate Petrochemical bares US$1.09 billion net profits in 2012
Materials News
- First of its kind triangular PET bottle for SEAB
- Bottle producers to benefit from SABIC’s Bimodial HDPE
- Teknor Apex to showcase new flexible elastomer compounds at US trade show
- Super-Reflective PCT for LED lghting
- RTP to produce TPV nylon compounds
- Amcor develops lightest hot fill PET bottle
- DuPont closes sale of coatings business
- Solazyme and Mitsui to jointly develop algal oils
- ExxonMobil’s resins make tougher yet light paint pails
- Biocomposites and algae-plastics enter the market
- Teijin Chemicals and SK chemicals to venture in PPS resins