The article offers news briefs in the chemical industry as of June 2015. Nippon Shokubai Co. intends to build new factories in Europe to produce superabsorbent polymers (SAP) and acrylic acid (AA). Evonik Industries opened its expanded oil-additives factory in Jurong Island, Singapore. Showa Denko KK (SDK) plans to construct a high-purity hydrogen fluoride (HF) manufacturing plant in China.