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US adhesives & sealants market to reach $12.8 bn in 2019

A turnaround in construction activity, combined with the expanding use of adhesives and sealants in manufacturing and assembly, will underpin demand gains, says Freedonia report

Ex-bureaucrat Maheswar Sahu joins Reliance Industries board

Maheswar Sahu appointed as an independent director on RIL board

Petron Engineering bags Rs 100-cr order for RIL's LLDPE plant in Jamnagar

Reliance Industries' J3 complex comprises a petroleum refinery and other associated petrochemical plants, which produce plastic and fibre intermediates

Sustainable development to guide policies of the environment ministry

Unveiling the agenda for 2015, Prakash Javadekar said that bringing transparency in processes, priority for greening the degraded forest, etc were high on priority

Government should consider setting up reverse SEZs: Sudhir Shenoy

These SEZs can help Indian companies to source competitive feedstock available in resource rich countries such as Africa, Middle East, etc to make chemical building blocks for meeting India's needs

India should invest in clean energy: Michael Bloomberg

The more India invests in sustainable cities, the stronger its economy will grow, says Bloomberg during RE-Invest summit in New Delhi

PM Narendra Modi inaugurates GE's 'Brilliant Factory' in Pune

Modi invites GE to invest in shipbuilding and defence manufacturing, where FDI has been raised to 49 percent

Praxair plans industrial gases unit to support BASF-Yara's ammonia project in Texas

The company will invest more than $400 million to add hydrogen and nitrogen production capacity and extend its Gulf Coast pipeline systems from Texas City to the Freeport area

BASF Petronas Chemicals to set up 2-ethylhexanoic acid plant in Malaysia

The facility will be the first backward integrated 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHAcid) plant in ASEAN, with annual capacity of 30,000 metric tonnes

SABIC inks pact with CIPET & CSIR for research in plastics & petrochemicals

Strategic collaborations with CIPTE and CSIR to strengthen academic and research capabilities of the Indian chemical industry

ONGC, Super Wave Technology to co-develop alternative for hydraulic fracturing

Both companies will work to co-develop eco-friendly alternative to the conventional hydraulic fracturing, which has led to shale gas revolution in US but requires water in huge quantities

Dynemic expands dye intermediates capacity

The company expands its production capacity of sodium naphthionate and N W acid - chemicals used to make food colours

Green chemistry can give a boost to Swachh Bharat mission: CII

Eco-friendly processes and innovative chemicals can offer sustainable solutions to some of the government missions such as smart cities, clean Gangaproject, Swachh Bharat, etc

Albemarle's Chemetall acquires Shanghai joint venture

With this transaction, Chemetall aims to further enhance its global footprint in the surface treatment market

Berger Paints plans to set up industrial coatings plant in Russia

The company signs an MoU to conduct feasibility study for establishing industrial coatings plant in Russia's Stavrapol region, which a hub for automobile and other industries

Lupin joins hand with Polish firm Celon for dry powder inhaler product

Both companies will co-develop fluticasone/salmeterol dry powder inhaler product - a generic version of GlaxoSmithKline's Advair Diskus, which had global sales of over $ 7 bn last fiscal

Global polymer nanocomposites market to reach $5.1 bn by 2020

The Asia-Pacific region dominated the market in terms of values in 2013 and it is expected to grow at a higher CAGR, from 2014 to 2020, according to MarketsandMarkets

Uhde Inventa-Fischer wins contract to set up polyamide 6 plant in Poland

As per the contract, awarded by Grupa Azoty, the multiline plant will have a total capacity of 80,000 metric tonnes per year of polyamide 6 for film applications and engineering plastics

Solvay eyes India to boost specialty polymers business growth

The company is targeting 1,000 tonnes production of polyetheretherketone (PEEK) in the third quarter of 2015 and aims to capture 15% of the Indian polyamide compound market by 2016

Dow's PacXpert flexible packaging technology wins Plasticon award

Plastindia Foundation instituted the 'Plasticon Awards' to facilitate excellence and innovation in the field of plastics