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The Japanese technology-driven specialty chemicals firm Kaneka Belgium in Westerlo has been selected as one of the six finalists in the essenscia Innovation Award competition 2019. The biannual essenscia Innovation Award is the most prestigious prize for industrial innovation for chemistry ...

Kaneka Corporation (Tokyo, Japan, President : Mamoru Kadokura) has acquired 34.8% share of AB-Biotics (“ABB”) (Barcelona, Spain, a Spanish biotech company focusing on research, development, and distribution of its own products using lactic acid bacteria). At the same time, Kaneka has concluded ...

Westerlo, Belgium – February 28th, 2018 – Yesterday, the Japanese specialty chemicals firm Kaneka Belgium in Westerlo-Oevel won the Foreign Investment of the Year Trophy 2018 at FIT’s Foreign Investment Trophy, emerging victorious from a pool of 5 nominees after 3 rounds of voting—by a ...

Westerlo, 07 februari 2018 - Gisteren, 6 februari, mocht het Japans bedrijf Kaneka uit Westerlo-Oevel, producent van specialty chemicals, het “Lean & Green” certificaat in ontvangst nemen voor haar plan van aanpak om de CO2-uitstoot en het energiegebruik in haar transport- en logistieke ...

Westerlo, Belgium – January 17, 2018 – Kaneka Corporation (Tokyo, Japan), increases its production capacities of polyethylene and polypropylene expanded particle foams (product name: Eperan™ and Eperan™-PP) in Europe at its Kaneka Belgium plant, located in Westerlo. ...

Kaneka Corporation (Osaka, Japan; President: Mamoru Kadokura) was granted the “OK Biodegradable MARINE”^*1 certificate in September this year, certifying that a newly developed polyester-based biodegradable plastic (Product name: Kaneka Biodegradable Polymer PHBH, hereinafter “PHBH”) is ...

Kaneka Corporation (Osaka, Japan), significantly increases its production capacities of modified silicone polymers (product name: Kaneka MS Polymer™) in Europe at its Kaneka Belgium plant, located in Westerlo. Kaneka MS Polymer™ is a base resin for high-quality sealants, adhesives, and coatings. ...

Kaneka Corporation (Osaka, Japan; President: Mamoru Kadokura, herein after referred to as Kaneka) has decided to drastically increase its biopharmaceutical^*1 production capacity in Kaneka Eurogentec S.A. (Seraing, Liege, Belgium; President: Masanobu Sugawara), a wholly owned group company ...

As from October 1, 2015, Kaneka Corporation (further: Kaneka), headquartered in Osaka and Tokyo, establishes a European holding company in Brussels, Belgium, aiming to accelerate its business development in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (further : EMEA). Along with this, Kaneka Belgium, ...

Berlin, 22 June 2017 – European Bioplastics (EUBP), the association representing the interests of the bioplastics industry in Europe, has elected a new Board on 21 June 2017 to serve a two-year term. In a clear vote of confidence, the General Assembly of EUBP affirmed the strategic direction ...

On December 4th, 2013, Kaneka Belgium NV and BASF SE signed a contract for the transfer of BASF’s Impact Modifier and Processing Aid Business, a product line to improve the impact strength and processing of PVC and engineering plastics. The agreement was ...

Kaneka Belgium N.V. (Westerlo, Belgium; President: Masaaki Kimura; hereinafter “Kaneka Belgium”), a subsidiary of Kaneka Corporation (Osaka, Japan; President: Kimikazu Sugawara) has reached an agreement on acquiring the acrylic-based modifier* business of BASF SE ...