BRAZIL

Rhodia starts producing eco-friendly solvent in Brazil
Rhodia (Paris, France; www.rhodia.com) has launched production of Rhodiasolv IRIS, an innovative  solvent with excellent eco-friendly properties, at a new unit located on the Group’s Santo Andre site in  Brazil. Rhodiasolv IRIS, designed for...

Shell Global Solutions licenses technology to SARC
Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (The Hague, Netherlands; www.shell.com/home/content/globalsolutions-en) and South Atlantic Refinery Company S.A. (SARC) recently signed an agreement to license technology for SARC’s new greenfield refinery...

Lanxess acquires majority share in Petroflex
Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has successfully completed the acquisition of an approximate 70 % holding in Petroflex S.A., Latin America’s biggest rubber producer. Lanxess is paying some 200-million euros...

Solvay Indupa will produce bioethanol-based vinyl in Brasil
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that the Board of its affiliate Solvay Indupa has approved a further $135-million-investment program to expand and increase the competitiveness of its vinyls production plant of Santo Andre...

Sugar-to-PE
Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; edlinks.che.com/6898-548) and Crystalsev (São Paulo, Brazil; edlinks.che.com/6898-549) are forming a joint venture in Brazil to design and build...