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Watertech India 2014 to be held in September

Show will witness the launch of three co-located events - Pollutech, Cleantech and Wastetech India - covering the complete chain of waste monitoring and management technologies

Architectural functional coatings offer high growth potential in China

Of the 4.64-million-tonne Chinese architectural coating market, architectural functional coatings accounted for 8%, according to Lux Research

DuPont's CEO Ellen Kullman urges for preservation Renewable Fuel Standard

DuPont has committed over $200 million for commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefineries in Iowa, USA

Arkema's unit CECA form JV with Saudi's Watan for oilfield chemicals

This investment in the Middle East, follows the organic peroxides investment announced by Arkema last October

Indo Gulf Fertilisers stops operations at Jagdishpur plant

Meanwhile, Aditya Birla Insulators' Rishra Unit at West Bengal has suspended work after a section of workers went on strike affecting the entire line of manufacturing process

Gas supply to Deepak Fertilisers' Taloja plant stopped

The company approaches Delhi High Court to seek remedial measures

SRF to build Rs 140-cr specialty chemicals plant

For 2013-14, the company net sales up by 6%, but PAT down by 36%

Chinese refiner selects Clariant's Catofin catalyst for isobutylene project

CB&I and Clariant has been awarded the contract for new iso-butane dehydrogenation unit

The new way to operate coal mines profitably

For optimisation of mining operations, coal companies need to focus on their core competency of managing the business, while operations and maintenance taken care by a qualified partner

Celanese CFO Steven Sterin resigns

Chris Jensen appointed as the company's interim Chief Financial Officer

BASF and Yara plan ammonia plant in Texas

BASF is currently a major user of ammonia for its US downstream activities and intends to further strengthen its backward integration

Clariant India's sales down marginally; but profit zooms in Q1 2014

The company has recorded a nearly fourfold increase in profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2014 over the previous quarter

Shutdown at Century Enka's polyester plant at Bharuch to continue

The company to carry out additional modification at the plant

Shutdown at Century Enka's polyester plant at Bharuch to continue

The company to carry out additional modification at the plant

BASF and Sinopec to build neopentylglycol plant in China

The plant, with an annual capacity of about 40,000 tonnes, is expected to on-stream by the end of 2015

Asian Paints closes Bhandup plant

It was the company's oldest manufacturing plant

Kanoria Chemicals receives National Safety Council award

The company's Visakhapatnam Division was awarded Certificate of Appreciation on the occasion of the 'World Day for safety and health at work'

National Peroxide to raise Kalyan plant capacity to 95,000 tonnes

For expansion work, the company announces 51-day shutdown

Wintac receives US FDA certification for Bangalore facility

The US revokes the warning letter which it had issued to Wintac in February 2012 due to GMP norm violations

China imposes dumping duties on polysilicon from EU

Germany's Wacker exempted from duties on the material, which is used to make solar panels