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Bayer MaterialScience selling polyester resins businesses to Stepan

Source: Daily News | 2013-04-30
Bayer MaterialScience LLC (BMS) is selling its North American polyester resins business to Northfield, Ill.-based polyester manufacturer Stepan Company.

Mexico's Mexichem calls off joint venture with Pemex

Source: Daily News | 2012-11-23
Mexican PVC pipe, vinyl resins and compounds manufacturer Mexichem is scrapping plans for a petrochemical joint venture with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) due to continued delays by the state-run oil company.

BASF to build new emulsion polymers plant in Texas

Source: Daily News | 2012-11-10
Chemical company BASF has announced plans to build a new production plant for emulsion polymers in Freeport, Texas.

Spartech shuttering Stratford, Ont., compounding plant

Source: Daily News | 2012-10-20
U.S.-based Custom compounder and sheet extruder Spartech Corporation is closing its manufacturing plant in Stratford, Ont.

Sabic unveils multiwall PC sheet capacity in India

Source: Daily News | 2012-05-26
In a move to tap into India and greater Asia’s growing construction and greenhouse industries, Sabic Innovative Plastics has started up a line making multiwall polycarbonate sheet at its plant in Vadodara, India.

Nova sells styrenics business to building products maker PFB Corp.

Source: Daily News | 2012-05-14
The performance styrenics business of Nova Chemicals Corporation is being purchased by building products maker PFB Corporation.

Westlake ends bid to buy Georgia Gulf

Source: Daily News | 2012-05-07
Westlake Chemical Corp. has withdrawn its US$1.2 billion bid to buy rival Georgia Gulf Corp., a maker of vinyl construction products, after Georgia Gulf officials rejected the offer as too low.

Post-consumer plastic bottles used to make houses in Nigerian city

Source: Daily News | 2011-11-11
City planners in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna are using post-consumer plastic bottles to help solve a housing shortage in Africa's most populous nation.

Dow Wire signs license deal with second Russian manufacturer

Source: Daily News | 2011-11-04
In a move to further expand its presence in the Russian Federation, Dow Wire & Cable, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co., has signed a license agreement with Russia's Uncomtech Group, the country's largest cable holding company based on...

Rehau sells Ontario facility to Quebec concrete pipe maker

Source: Daily News | 2011-01-08
Pipe manufacturer Rehau North America has sold its Prescott, Ontario plant to Quebec-based Brunet Concrete Group.

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