India is the fourth largest global producer of agrochemicals after the US, Japan and China. This segment generated a value of USD 4.4 billion in FY15 and is expected to grow at 7.5% per annum to reach USD 6.3 billion by FY20.
Air Products has announced it will build a new plant and associated infrastructure in the Pukou Economic Development Zone (PKEDZ), Nanjing, eastern China, to supply ultra-high purity gases to its customers in the park.
AkzoNobel has reported a second quarter with positive developments in profitability in all three Business Areas, despite currency pressures and a challenging market environment.
Evonik is the first company able to use biotech methods to produce surfactants on an industrial scale.
Monsanto has announced that its Board of Directors unanimously views Bayer AG’s revised proposal as financially inadequate and insufficient to ensure deal certainty.
Pilot plant captures up to 30 tons of CO2 per day at more than 90 percent capture rate and at a CO2 purity of more than 99.9 percent
AGC Asahi Glass (AGC), a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, announces that AGC’s subsidiary in Vietnam has changed its company name to AGC Chemicals Vietnam from Phu My Plastics & Chemicals (PMPC).
The augmentation of Sunrex facilities, when completed in November 2017, will bring Mitsui Chemicals global production capacity to 115,000 tons/year.
During May, capacity utilization in the global business of chemistry declined 0.2 percentage points to 79.3 percent. This is off from 81.0 percent last May and is below the long-term (1987-2015) average of 89.2 percent.
This contract is an evidence of a high level of professional trust, a display of common goals and market vision both from the supplier and the importer perspective.
Year-to-date production was 33.5 billion pounds, a 3.9 percent increase as compared to the same period in 2015.
This new laboratory will specialize in high performance polymers and renewable energies - two areas of excellence for the Hanyang University.
JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation launched Front End Engineering Design for Polyisobutylene (PIB) plant expansion.
The Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers Ananth Kumar said that there are 22 refineries in the country, and there is a move to set up chemical hubs around them.
With this breakthrough innovation, the volatilization can be reduced by up to 90%.
During the meeting, the BADC management expressed their intention to examine in details the possibility to buy other kinds of fertilizers in Belarus, as well as tractors and agricultural machinery.
There were gains in the production output trend of fertilizers, dyes and pigments, chlor-alkali, other inorganic chemicals, industrial gases, plastic resins, pharmaceuticals adhesives, coatings, and other specialty chemicals.
This innovative technology also benefits from the Arkema Group’s back-integration in castor oil, a raw material of renewable origin.
American chemistry is the global leader in production, providing over fifteen percent of the world’s chemicals and representing fourteen percent of all U.S. exports.
Weakness in oilfield chemicals and mining chemicals has weighed on overall volumes. Of the twenty-eight specialty chemical segments we monitor, eight expanded in May, with plastic additives and plasticizers experiencing large gains (1.0 percent or mo
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