CHEMICAL UPDATE
NOVEMBER 2011
McIlvaine Company
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INDUSTRY NEWS
French Chemists Develop Plastic That Behaves Like Glass
Trade Group Agrees to List Chemicals Used in Gas Fracking
Green Chemicals Will Save Industry $65.5B By 2020, According To Pike Research
COMPANY NEWS
BASF to Base HQ for Dispersions & Pigments Division in Hong Kong
Dow and Mitsui Complete JV in Brazil for Biopolymers Platform for Flexible
Packaging, Hygiene and Medical Applications
Rockwood's Chemetall Lithium Business Opens New Butyllithium Operation in India
French Arkema to Buy China's Hipro Polymers, Casda Biomaterials
Novomer Raises Another $10M for Green Plastics
Myriant and Sojitz Form Partnership for Green Chemicals
Techmer to Make Products with Engineering Resins
Bayer Develops Polyurethane Composite for Windmill Blades
Dow Chemical Expands Operations in Africa
Ineos Divests Spanish ABS Group Elix Polymers