Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (TYO:4183) is ramping up efforts aimed at the commercialization of new automotive materials. One initiative here is seeing the company develop a unidirectional (UD) tape made of...
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Ueno Fine Chemicals Amplifies Marketing of LCP for Low-Temperature Alloying With Resins
Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry Ltd. is doubling down on marketing efforts for its Tecros line of liquid crystal polymer (LCP), which is able to be alloyed with general-purpose resins. The...
Toyota Auto Body to Carve out New Market Space for Wood-Like Decorative Resin Material
Toyota Auto Body Co. Ltd. is making a push to expand the use of Toyota Auto Body Wood (TABWD) plastic, a proprietary plant fiber-reinforced material. To this end, the company...
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings to Strengthen Group’s Operations for Auto Parts
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. (TYO:4188) is looking to use the full strength of its group companies to make a push with automotive components. As part of this, subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical...
Ethylene Production Volume Slips 12% in April Due to Routine Maintenance
Japan’s ethylene production volume for April 2018 dropped 11.8 percent year-on-year to 484,300 tons, according to a May 24 report from the Japan Petrochemical Industry Association. Two ethylene facilities in...
PTTGC to Increase PP Production in Thailand
PTT Global Chemical PCL (PTTGC) is ramping up its polypropylene (PP) production. The Thai company is working on the addition of a new PP plant with 250,000 tons in annual...
Jam Petrochemical Makes Further Business Investments in Iran
Iranian-based Jam Petrochemical Co. is working to make a series of large-scale investments in its home country. The company’s efforts here are intended to double its 2016 chemical production volume...
Japan Polypropylene Responds to Automotive Demand With Moves to Increase LGFPP Production
Japan Polypropylene Corp. is making moves to increase its production of long glass fiber reinforced polypropylene (LGFPP) across Japan, China and the U.S. Further, the company has plans in the...
Mitsui Chemicals to Expand Business Into Long-Fiber-Reinforced PP
Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (TYO:4183) is planning an entry into composite materials that mix polypropylene (PP) compounds with ingredients such as glass fiber. The company will boost production of Mostron L,...
Polyplex Moves Toward Further Stronghold on Southeast Asian PET Film Market
Polyplex Corp. Ltd., a world-leading manufacturer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film, plans to ramp up its investment activities in Southeast Asia. In Thailand, Polyplex is investing $5 million to go...
Prime Polymer to Construct New PP Facility in Chiba
Prime Polymer Co. Ltd., a joint venture funded by Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (TYO:4183) at 65 percent and Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. (TYO:5019) at 35 percent, has solidified scrap-and-build construction plans...
Japan Polypropylene Resumes Operation at Kashima PP Plant
Japan Polypropylene Corp. announced on Jan. 31 that it resumed operations at its polypropylene (PP) production plant in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan. 24. Work at the factory had been...
Sumitomo Chemical Plans PP Compound Production in US
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4005) is gearing up for U.S. production of a polypropylene (PP) and short glass fiber compound for use in automotive parts. The Japanese chemical manufacturer began...
Thai-Based IRPC to Begin Paraxylene Operations
Major Thai-based oil-refining and petrochemical company IRPC Public Co. Ltd. is preparing to start a paraxylene (PX) business. The company aims to complete a new aromatics facility by 2022 through...
Sumitomo Chemical to Increase PP Production for Battery Separators
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4005) plans to increase its Singaporean production of high-performance polypropylene (PP). Looking to complete improvements to some production lines by next summer, the Japanese chemical manufacturer...
Hyosung Moves Toward 1.3M Ton Capacity for Polypropylene in Asia
South Korea’s Hyosung Corp. will establish 1.3 million tons of polypropylene (PP) annual production capacity in Asia. Last year, Hyosung decided to increase its annual PP production at an existing...
Propylene Prices Continue to Run High With Ongoing Demand for Steady Supply
Propylene is expected to maintain a high price point in the Asian market for some time to come. The organic compound is trading at over $950 per ton at the...
Tatsuta Chemical Develops Highly Transparent PP Composite Sheet
Tatsuta Chemical Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based consolidated subsidiary of Kaneka Corp. (TYO:4118), has developed a highly transparent polypropylene (PP) composite sheet that blocks oxygen and water vapor to prevent the...
Teijin Deploys New Polycarbonate–Polypropylene Alloy for Use in Medical Storage Container
Teijin Ltd. (TYO:3401) announced on Nov. 15 that an innovative plastic alloy developed by the company is now in use to make the Cycle Pale, a container for processing infectious...
JSP to Increase EPP Production Capacity by 25% in North America
JSP Corp. (TYO:7942) has begun boosting its expanded polypropylene (EPP) production capacity in North America. The company will set up new EPP sites and molding equipment for P-Block and Arpro...
