News

Mammoth US Find Excites Fracking Industry

22.11.2016 - A find in western Texas of what is being billed as the largest-ever shale oil and gas reserves at a single site – possibly worth as much as $900 billion in revenue – is exciting...

Markets & Companies

Challenges Evolve In China

21.11.2016 - In the last 12 months, developments in China’s chemical industry have been somewhat contradictory, as illustrated by two different company statements made in September. On the one...

Markets & Companies

South America’s Chemical Industry in Recession

21.11.2016 - The South American countries were beacons of hope for the world economy until the 2008/2009 global economic crisis. Brazil, the region’s largest country, was even mentioned in the...

Markets & Companies

Brexit’s Implications for the UK’s Chemical Industry

21.11.2016 - Brexit was predicted by its opponents and even neutral economists to precipitate at best a sharp economic downturn in the UK and at worst a deep recession. So far, four months...

Markets & Companies

Innovation Makes A Difference

21.11.2016 - The biggest – listed – European chemical manufacturers (Air Liquide, Akzo Nobel, Arkema, BASF, Bayer, Covestro, DSM, Evonik, Johnson Matthey, K+S, Lanxess, Solvay, Syngenta...

Markets & Companies

EPCA Celebrates its 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Budapest

20.11.2016 - After four busy days of business sessions and meetings by members of the global chemical business community, the EPCA 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting has concluded with its annual...

Books

Petrochemicals & EPCA: A Passionate Journey

20.11.2016 - Petrochemicals are currently the biggest of the industrial chemicals sectors, accounting in 2016 for 40 percent of the global chemicals market of around €2.65 trillion. And...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

'Always Solving' - Ashland Launches New Brand

19.11.2016 - Ashland is a specialty chemicals company serving customers in a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, including adhesives, architectural coatings, automotive, construction...

News

US Drugmakers Look to Trump for Help

14.11.2016 - Based on positions he took during the election campaign, the US pharmaceutical and biotech sectors stand to benefit from a Donald Trump presidency, some analysts have suggested. In...

News

Chemical Trade Groups Comment on US Vote

11.11.2016 - Chemical industry trade organizations both in the US and Europe reacted to the outcome of the Nov. 8 US general election with statements offering the usual pledges to work with a...