CHEMICAL UPDATE
MARCH 2015
McIlvaine Company
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AMERICAS Johns Manville Invests to Support Growth in Engineering Thermoplastics Wacker Expands Production Capacity for Dispersions in USA Entergy Louisiana to Power Expanded CF Industries Facility Solvay to Build Specialty Polymers PEEK-production Unit in U.S. BioAmber Begins Commissioning of Sarnia Commercial Plant Dow Invests $6 Billion in U.S. Manufacturing GEO Opens New Polyaluminum Chloride Facility in Texas Yara and BASF to Build Ammonia Plant in Freeport, Texas Praxair Gulf Coast Expansion to Serve Freeport, Texas, and Supply New Yara/ BASF Ammonia Project Honeywell Begins Full-scale Production of Low-GWP Material
ASIA AkzoNobel Breaks Ground on New Specialty Chemicals Plant in China BASF, Petronas Chemicals to build 2-EHAcid plant in Malaysia AkzoNobel Performance Coatings Adds Capacity in Indonesia
EUEA SNC-Lavalin Awarded Fluegas-Treatment Contract in Romania BASF Expands Its Capacity for Specialty Amines in Ludwigshafen Evonik Agreement to Acquire Monarch Catalyst in India Arkema Expands Specialty Polymer (PEKK) Production Capacities in France and U.S. Wacker Builds New Production Plant for Specialty Monomers in Burghausen Victrex to Construct U.K. Polymer Innovation Center Solvay Signs Exclusive Global License Agreement with Revolymer to Bolster Performance of Organic Peroxide Eureco Air Liquide to Build, Own and Operate World’s Largest Oxygen Production Unit for Sasol in South Africa Technip Awarded Substantial Contract for New Fertilizer Unit in Slovak Republic
MERGERS/ ACQUISITIONS
Daikin Acquires Refrigerant Business in Europe from Solvay S. A.
Johnson Matthey Completes Acquisition of Battery Materials Business from Clariant
Polypore Sells Energy Storage Segment for $2.2B to Asahi Kasei and Separations Media Segment to 3M for $1B