CHEMICAL UPDATE
AUGUST 2015
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AMERICAS Yara and BASF Break Ground on New Ammonia Plant in Freeport, Texas QuantumSphere Completes Nanocatalyst Production Facility AkzoNobel Expands Performance Coatings Research Facility in Houston BioAmber Announces Opening of World's Largest Succinic Acid Plant in Sarnia, Ontario Albemarle Begins Commissioning of New Lithium Carbonate Production Plant in Chile Honeywell Resins and Chemicals Breaks Ground on New Resin Manufacturing Line in Virginia
ASIA
H.B. Fuller Breaks Ground On New Adhesives Plant in Indonesia
Solvay Starts Up Fluoroelastomers Plant in China
BASF Starts Construction of Chemical Catalysts Plant in China
Linde to Install World’s Largest Onsite Fluorine Plant in South Korea
BP Starts Up World’s Largest PTA Production Unit
Toyo Wins Contract for Synthetic Rubber Plant in Indonesia
Asahi Kasei to Expand Production of Styrenic Thermoplastic Elastomer
MHI and Mitsubishi to Build Large-Scale Fertilizer Plant in Uzbekistan
Messer Commissions Second Krypton and Xenon Production Unit in China
Sumitomo Announces Battery-Separator Capacity Expansion, New Plant in Korea
BASF Inaugurates New Plant for High Performance Ultramid® in China
Celanese to Construct VAE Emulsions Unit in Singapore
Solvay Launches Silica Plant Construction in South Korea to Meet Energy Saving Tire Demand
Showa Denko to Build Hydrogen Fluoride Facility in China; Doubled Japan Capacity
EMEA
WACKER Starts up New Production Plant for Specialty Monomers at Burghausen
Air Liquide Starts Up Large Hydrogen Production Unit in Germany
Sasol’s Wax Expansion Project Phase I Successfully Commissioned