June 2015 Archives
Company News
Milacron offers IPO; dull trading on first day - Bluestar taken over by Elkem; undertaking expansion in France
- Huntsman acquires PU specialist Tecnoelastomeri
- PolyOne opens new technical centre in China
- DuPont, General Akcome sign agreement for frameless solar panel
- 3i invests EUR250 mn in Weener Plastic Packaging
- Bayer to spin off MaterialScience as Covestro
- Maag changes name and reorganises
- Sun Plastech acquires Novachem
- Coveris enters Australasian market with NZ firm acquisition
- Westlake Chemical increases shares in Suzhou Huasu Plastics
- A. Schulman completes Citadel Plastics purchase
Materials News
- Trinseo, DuPont, Lanxess introduce new products at IRC 2015
- BASF commissions pilot plant for PU-aerogel insulating panels
- Honeywell breaks ground for new resin manufacturing line in Virginia
- Coca-Cola debuts world’s first 100% plant-based bottle
- Total Cray Valley presents new PVC profiles processing aid technology at US conference
- BMS commissions second TPU line in India
- Deployment of world’s first ocean cleaning system expected in 2016
- Solvay opens biotechnology lab in Brazil
- BASF and Petronas break ground on 2-EHAcid plant in Malaysia
- BASF and thinkstep to market sustainability platform
- More firms join waste-to-chemicals partnerhip
- Haydale renames graphene composites unit
- BMS begins construction of CO2 production line in Domagen
