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Eurotecnica recently announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply carbon black technology and basic design for Abu Dhabi Oil...

The Carbon Black 2011 Asia Pacific Conference will be held next week in Singapore. Anyone interested in the $14 billion global carbon...

Indonesia Today reports that Boston-based Cabot Corporation, the global carbon black producer, is increasing the capacity of its carbon...

Chemical and Engineering News (subscription required) has an excellent article on Cabot’s growing position in ink-jet printing colorants,...

A staff report in the European Rubber Journal summarizes Cabot Corp.’s global carbon black expansions. Cabot is expanding three...

Mike McNulty at Rubber & Plastics News recently did a piece on recent restructuring in the carbon black industry focusing on the June...

On September 18, Cabot Corporation held the opening ceremony for its new black masterbatch plant in Tianjin, China. Cabot announced the...

Free Paper reports that Jiangxi Black Cat recently completed a new 20,000 tonne/year production line for precipitated silica in...

Reuters reports that the German specialty chemicals manufacturer, Evonik, has postponed its IPO to spring of 2012.  In August 2011,...

Asks Tire Review. According to an official statement Bridgestone released to the Nikkei, the company is expected to face a shortage of an...

Cabot Corp, the US-based specialty chemical company, will sell its supermetals business to Australia’s Global Advanced Metals (GAM) for...

Cabot Corporation will invest $10 million to increase production capacity at its inkjet facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts by the end...

Asia Carbon Industries Inc. is an emerging, China-based producer of a series of high quality carbon black products under the brand name...

Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited reported strong quarterly results for the quarter ended June 30, 2011. Net earnings were up 70% compared to the...

Astronomers report the discovery of a distant planet in the constellation of Draco that is as black as coal, or pure carbon. Like...

On August 1, Evonik Industries announced that it had successfully completed the divestment of its carbon black activities on July 29,...

Effective August 1, 2011, it is expected that the divestiture of the carbon black business from Evonik Corporation will be complete. ...

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations will invest $135 million to expand capacity at its passenger and light truck tire plant in Aiken...

The European Commission has cleared the acquisition of German chemical company Evonik’s carbon black business under the EU Merger...

The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental lobby group based in California, has issued a formal letter to the US Environmental...