10.11.2017
- A month ago, at the European Petrochemical Association’s Annual Meeting held in Berlin, Germany, Jim Fitterling, president & chief operating officer of the Dow Chemical Company...
07.11.2017
- Doubt continues to be cast on whether Saudi Arabia’s planned initial public offering of 5% of its shares in national flagship oil and petrochemicals group Saudi Aramco will go...
06.11.2017
- As part of its first financial report, the chemical industry’s newest giant, the merged DowDuPont, has announced it has rolled back its timetable for splitting into three...
01.11.2017
- Will LyondellBasell and Braskem be the next two companies to enter a marriage of convenience? It is yet unclear how much weight a report by the US financial newspaper Wall Street...
30.10.2017
- Confirming market rumors, AkzoNobel said it has entered what it called “constructive discussions” with Axalta Coating Systems about a merger, adding that the combination of the two...
27.10.2017
- In a move that surprised some but others had anticipated, the transatlantic multi-billion dollar fusion of the two specialty chemicals producers Clariant of Switzerland and...
26.10.2017
- The EU has again failed to reach agreement on renewing authorization for use of glyphosate. No formal vote was taken at the Commission meeting on Oct. 25, as an initial round of...
25.10.2017
- In an ad-hoc announcement published on its website on Oct. 23, German industrial gases and engineering group Linde said it had lowered the threshold for the minimum percentage of...
24.10.2017
- Multinational oil and petrochemicals group Shell is preparing to begin construction on its planned $10 billion petrochemicals site in the US state of Pennsylvania, close to...
20.10.2017
- With less than a week to go before the tender offer for Linde shares ends, at midnight on Oct. 24, acceptance among shareholders for the planned merger with Praxair is still well...
