WACKER Launches Production of Pyrogenic Silica in the US

The Munich-based WACKER Group officially brought a plant for manufacturing pyrogenic silica on stream at its US site in Charleston, Tennessee. The facility has an annual production capacity of 13,000 metric tons. WACKER will use this output both for sales purposes and for its own silicone ...

Wacker Builds New Polysilicon Production Facility in the USA

Completion scheduled for end of 2013

Wacker Chemie AG will build a new and fully integrated polysilicon production site near the city of Cleveland, Tennessee (USA). With an annual capacity of 15,000 metric tons, the production complex will be built on a property acquired by Wacker early last year. In Cleveland, Wacker will build ...

Matheson Tri-Gas completes acquisition of U.S. assets divested by Air Liquide

Matheson announced today that it has completed its acquisition of certain U.S. assets divested by Air Liquide. The transaction was first announced on June 24, 2016. In the transaction, MATHESON acquired eighteen air separation units, two nitrous oxide plants, and four carbon dioxide plants and ...

Manuli Strech to expand its factory in Value Park Schkopau

Manuli Stretch Deutschland GmbH is expanding its factory in Dow Value Park at the Schkopau site and will invest a further € 21 million altogether in the period up to 2012. The number of employees will increase in this period by 31 to 175 with the number of apprentices increasing from 10 to 16. ...

Wacker expands Production of Dispersible Polymer Powders at Burghausen

Wacker is constructing a new plant to expand its production capacity for dispersible polymer powders by another 30,000 metric tons per year. Designed to offer world-class technology and capacity levels, the new plant is scheduled to start operations in 2007. The investment project's goal is to ...

Westlake Chemical to Increase Capacity of Chlor-Alkali Plant

New unit located in Geismar, Louisiana

Westlake Chemical Corporation announced it is increasing the capacity of the previously announced chlor-alkali plant to be located at its vinyls manufacturing complex in Geismar, Louisiana. The chlor-alkali unit originally estimated to produce 250,000 electrochemical units (ECU's) annually will ...

Westlake Chemical Restarts Plant In Geismar, LA

Westlake Chemical Corporation announced that its vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) unit at its complex in Geismar, Louisiana, damaged by a fire in late March, has been safely repaired and restarted. With the restart of this unit the overall site is now fully operational. Westlake continues to ...

GEA wins EUR 37 million order to build bioethanol plant

GEA Wiegand, a company of GEA Group, has won an order in Slovakia to build a complete turnkey bioethanol plant. The order is worth EUR 37 million, making it the largest in the history of GEA Wiegand. The plant will produce approximately 300,000 liters of bioethanol per day, which represents an ...

Degussa Puts Colorants and Polyesters Plants in Shanghai on Stream

Degussa AG celebrated the start-up of its new polyesters and colorants plants at its multi-user site (MUSC) in Shanghai. On June 12, 2006, Dr. Alfred Oberholz, Dr. Manfred Spindler, and Dr. Hans-Peter Schaufler welcomed a large number of guests from the worlds of politics and business to the ...

Lenzing Builds Viscose Fiber Production in China

Capacity: 60,000 tons/year - Partnership with Nanjing Chemical Fibre Company

The Lenzing Group, a worldwide leading manufacturer of cellulose-based fibers will build its own viscose fiber production plant in China. The new production site, to be situated in an industrial park near the town of Nanjing in the south-east Jiangsu province, will have an annual capacity of ...