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Clariant Opens Euro 100-million innovation centre in Germany

The new centre to coordinate global R&D activities from strategically advantageous Rhein-Main region

Solvay completes acquisition of Chemlogics

The company receives clearance from the relevant anti-trust authorities

Celanese may shut down two European facilities

The company plans to close down acetic anhydride plant in Roussillon (France) and vinyl acetate unit in Tarragona (Spain)

Solvay to build Euro 40-million alkoxylation facility in Texas

Equistar to supply ethylene oxide raw material to the unit

ThyssenKrupp plans JV with De Nora to strengthen electrolysis business

The companies intend to combine their EPC activities for electrolysis plants under the name ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers

BASF plans R&D centre for electronic materials in Korea

The centre, which will come up at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, to open in 2014

Dow to set up polyether polyols facility in Thailand

New development will meet customer needs and support Dow's growth plans for Asia Pacific

Tosoh SMD plans major investments to serve semiconductor industry

The company to expand its Grove City, Ohio, operations to develop, produce, and support physical vapour deposition (PVD) sputtering targets for the new 450 mm wafer

David Allen is AkzoNobel's new Head of Integrated Supply Chain

Will officially take up the position on October 1, 2013, and report directly to CEO Ton Büchner

Amit Jain heads Europe to lead AkzoNobel NV's decorative paints team

This coincides with the announcement made by the Dutch parent company to streamline management structure and operating model for its Decorative Paints business globally

Anant Maheshwari appointed as Honeywell India's President

Vikas Chadha to be Managing Director of Honeywell Automation India

LANXESS narrows full-year 2013 guidance range

Q3 sales decline by 5% year-on-year to Euro 2.1 billion, and net income drops by 88 percent to EUR 11 million

Merck to lead organic photovoltaics research project in Germany

Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the project aims to achieve the breakthrough of organic photovoltaics

CNOOC's arm Nexen to examine LNG development in Canada

Exploring construction of LNG plant and export terminal at Grassy Point, British Columbia

Elevance launches first renewable personal care ingredients

Elevance Smooth and Elevance Soft are 100% renewable, plant-based materials

BASF increases prices of vitamin E and A feed grade

While prices of all vitamin E products have been increased by 15%, there has been a 10% price hike for all vitamin A products

Odebrecht plans petrochemical complex in USA

The complex to include an ethane cracker and three polyethylene plants

Solvay and Shanghai 3F form JV for specialty fluorinated polymers

The two companies also establish a long-term supply agreement of raw materials for production of fluorinated polymers

Airgas to build air separation unit in Chicago

The production expected to start from July 2015

Petronas and Versalis form elastomer JV

The JV to use Versalis' technology to make synthetic rubbers at Petronas' proposed Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) complex