Post Hartalega Holdings will triple its current annual capacity of rubber gloves to 29.1 billion pieces. The project is expected to begin in 2013 and will be completed by 2021 at an estimated cost of US$490 million and will consist…
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Samsung invest on chlorinated PE project
Samsung Chemical announced that it has invested about US$13.3 million for a new plant that will help increase its annual output of chlorinated PE to 60,000 tonnes. The company’s current output is 30,000 tonnes. The expansion project will be done…
Kaiping and Second invest on new tyre cord weave plant
Kaiping High-Performance Rubbers and Second Co. Ltd held the opening ceremony of its new facility in Guangdong Kaiping Green Lake New District. The plant, worth US$50 million, covers an area of 497,763 square metres and will be producing 600 tonnes…
Engel doubles up capacity in Shanghai
AFTER realising huge sales from Asia, Engel Austria will continue this growth by doubling the capacity of its large-scale machine works in Shanghai. Engel has invested EUR 12 million in the extension of the Shanghai plant. The injection moulding machine…
BASF India to set up new chemical production site
BASF India will build a new chemical production site at the Dahej Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR), located on the west coast of India in Gujarat. The investment is estimated at EUR150 million. To be an integrated hub…
Teijin to open R&D centre in China
TEIJIN Ltd announced plans for a textile R&D centre in China. The facility will be built on the premises of its factory in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. Construction of the facility will total US$24 billion, with operations expected to start in…
Evonik builds new Hydrogen Peroxide Plant in Jilin
EVONIK Industries has just held the groundbreaking ceremony for its new hydrogen peroxide plant in China. Scheduled to go online at the end of 2013, the plant will have a production capacity of 230,000 metric tonnes per year. This additional…
Malaysian NR production fell in February
FEBRUARY marks the lowest for Malaysia; natural rubber produced was at 88,077 tonnes, a drop of 3,503 tonnes compared with the same month in 2011. The figure was up by 2,918 tonnes on the January figure. Exports reached 64,052 tonnes…
Triangle Group calls for more ‘green’ technologies
IN a keynote speech at an auto and tyre industry summit in Beijing, Triangle Group’s president, Ding Yuhua called for more “green” technologies in China, especially in the tire industry. He pledged that the group will follow the trend by…
Shandong’s tyre exports jumped 54% in 2011
EXPORTS of tyres from the Shandong region increased in value by 54%, to US$7,834 million in 2011, according to a local official. President of the Shandong Provincial Rubber Industry Association, Zhang Hongmin said this trend was much better than the…