BASF announces new investments to strengthen its global footwear presence: opening new Footwear Development Centers in the US and Thailand, launching a Footwear Innovation Center in Taiwan, and expanding the Footwear Development Center in Italy.
Hasco continues to expand its hot runner business and invests continuously in innovation. In June, Hasco hot runner opened a newly constructed hot runner technical center at its location in Guntramsdorf, Austria.
BASF Venture Capital is investing in the Longwater Advanced Materials Fund. This private equity fund is managed by Longwater Investment, a pioneer growth capital investor in advanced materials and chemistry-related technologies in China.
Managing Director Sales, Gerhard Böhm inaugurated the Arburg Technology Center (ATC) in Marinha Grande, Portugal on 15 May 2019. With this facility, Arburg now provides its Portuguese customers with sufficient space for the latest machine technology.
The Engel Group saw out the 2018/19 fiscal year, which closed at the end of March, with a turnover of €1.6 billion. The injection moulding machine manufacturer and systems solutions provider headquartered in Schwertberg, Austria, once again raised its sales, achieving a 6% increase over the previous year.
Lanxess has successfully completed the expansion of its Macrolex dyes production plant at the Chempark Leverkusen.
From the end of April, Wittmann Battenfeld France will be located at a new address. The staff of the Wittmann subsidiary is moving into their newly constructed building in La Buisse, Arrondissement Grenoble, about 5 km from their present domicile in Moirans.
BASF today officially opened a pioneering research center at the heart of the Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, close to the famous Ammonia Lab.
The Perm facility is 100% ready for commissioning, with the first batch of dioctyl terephthalate coming off the line and shipped to customers as part of the pre-commissioning pilot.
The Chemours Company today announced the startup of the new Opteon YF (HFO-1234yf) low global-warming-potential (GWP) refrigerant production facility at its Corpus Christi manufacturing plant in Ingleside, Texas.
CheMondis, a new global online marketplace for chemical products, has been successfully launched. The startup founded by Lanxess is set up as a cross-manufacturer and cross-dealer B2B platform on which products can be bought and sold.
Ampacet, a premier global provider of masterbatch and additive materials, services and solutions, announces the start-up of two new color production lines and the expansion of its research and development and color labs in Luxembourg.
