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Eastman Selects Univar Solutions to Distribute Plasticizer Portfolio in Mexico

June 10, 2024

With the new agreement, Univar Solutions is expanding its portfolio of essential materials that help improve the durability, flexibility, and reliability of products such as plastics, vinyl, rubber, and adhesives.

INEOS Acetyls to Purchase Eastman’s Texas City Operations

October 7, 2023

As part of the agreement, Eastman will retain ownership of its plasticizer business at the site, which INEOS will operate for Eastman.

Evonik and LIKAT Rostock Partner in Carbonylation Chemistry Development

With this new process, Evonik reports that the participating project partners are laying the foundation for a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective large-scale method of synthesis.

January 8, 2020

Evonik Industries recently announced that a research team led by Matthias Beller, Ph.D., director of the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock (LIKAT Rostock), and Robert Franke, Ph.D., of Evonik Performance Materials GmbH, has succeeded in double carbonylating 1,3-butadiene directly to produce adipates (salts of adipic acid).

Evonik Supports EPA Diisononyl Phthalate Risk Evaluation

The EPA’s risk evaluation of diisononyl phthalate will reportedly be performed using the best available science and weight of scientific evidence.

December 19, 2019

Evonik recently announced that it has joined with other manufacturers in the High Phthalates Panel (HPP), a sector group of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), in a voluntary manufacturer request to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a broad-based risk evaluation of the uses of diisononyl phthalate (DINP).

Grupa Azoty Names Brenntag Distributor for its Plasticizer Portfolio in the DACH Region

Grupa Azoty has reportedly been producing plasticizers at its Kedzierzyn-Kozle site in southern Poland since 1954.

December 9, 2019

Brenntag recently announced that it is expanding its portfolio to include plasticizers from the Poland-based Grupa Azoty ZAK S.A.

EMERALD KALAMA CHEMICAL: Plasticizers

March 22, 2019

VITROFLEX A90 and VITROFLEX A99 have reportedly been optimized to achieve excellent processing characteristics.

Emerald Kalama Chemical Appoints Palmer Holland as Distributor

The company will cover the Northeast U.S. territory, including New England, Northern Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Midwest.

October 19, 2018

Emerald Kalama Chemical recently announced it has appointed Palmer Holland as a preferred distributor for its plasticizers, coalescents and modifiers.