Chemical

French chemical firm Arkema’s acquisition of Lambson, a UK company specialising in photoinitiators for curing, a technology meeting the demands of cutting-edge markets such as electronics, 3D printing, digital ink, composites and high performance coatings, will complement the offering of its subsidiary Sartomer. The latter specialises in photocure resins. This…

US-based compounder RTP Company has acquired the Zeotherm TPV product line from Zeon Chemicals. The transaction, completed in May of 2019, encompasses all products sold globally under the Zeotherm TPV name. “This acquisition is just the latest step in our rapidly expanding Thermoplastic Elastomer business,” explains Todd Gummersbach, General Manager…

Meanwhile in other news, India’s Nayara Energy will utilise W. R. Grace & Co’s Unipol PP process technology for its facility located at the Vadinar Refinery in Gujarat. The new, world-scale capacity PP facility will utilise 450 KTA of propylene feedstock. Nayara Energy intends to produce phthalate-free homopolymer products for the Indian…

UK’s independent providers of materials and product qualification testing, Element Materials Technology, has integrated into its company Admaterials Technologies, a Singapore-based business that provides testing to the construction sector, as well as chemical, environmental and mechanical testing and certification services. This represents the final stage of an extensive integration program…

Speciality chemicals firm Evonik Industries is extending its corporate venture capital activities in the US with an investment in New Jersey-based early-stage investor Tech Council Ventures II. The German firm says it is investing a single-digit million US-dollar amount. Tech Council Ventures finances young, innovative start-up companies and actively supports…

US firm ExxonMobil has started production on a new high-performance polyethylene (PE) line at its Beaumont, Texas, PE plant. The expansion increases plant production capacity by 65% or 650,000 tonnes/year, bringing site capacity to nearly 1.7 million tonnes/year. This expansion builds upon supply advantages created by ExxonMobil’s two new performance…

Styrenics maker Ineos Styrolution is collaborating with Indaver nv, a European waste management company with large-scale treatment facilities in the port of Antwerp headquartered in Belgium, for chemical recycling of polystyrene (PS) in Europe. The collaboration between the two companies aims at taking advantage of the recyclability of PS to…

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has started the production of high performance prepolymers at its site in Porto Feliz, Brazil. With this measure, the Urethane Systems business unit is expanding its production capacity for prepolymers. In addition, application development and technical services is provided from its state-of-the-art laboratory at the site.…

Chevron Phillips (CP) Chemical Company, the US petrochemical company jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips 66, has made a bid to acquire Canada’s Nova Chemicals for more than US$15 billion including debt, according to a Reuters report. The report says that Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co,…

ndia’s gas/petrochemical firm Gail India says it successfully produced metallocene linear-low density polyethylene (mLLDPE) on its world-class 400,000-tonne/year Unipol PE Reactor line located in Pata, Uttar Pradesh, early this year. B.C Tripathi, Chairman/Managing Director of Gail commented that demand for metallocene PE resins provides significant growth opportunities within the Indian…