16.07.2015
- French drugmaker Sanofi has announced plans to streamline its corporate structure with effect from January 2016. The company pointed to its heritage formed from a combination of...
16.07.2015
- A bill designed to significantly streamline and hasten the drug approval process in the US has been approved by a wide margin in the House of Representatives. The nonpartisan 21st...
16.07.2015
- BASF has agreed to cooperate with French biotech firm Poietis to try to improve skin treatment with the use of 3D printing. The French company has pioneered a method of laser...
15.07.2015
- Germany’s antitrust authority Bundeskartellamt has approved BASF’s plans to sell its custom synthesis business, part of the Nutrition & Health division, and parts of its current...
15.07.2015
- A blaze that engulfed two storage units at the LyondellBasell polyolefins site at Berre in southern France in the early morning hours of Jul. 14 may have been deliberately set...
15.07.2015
- With the help of four low-pressure fans, Ineos has “raised the roof” on the new ethane tank it is installing at its mammoth petrochemical complex at Grangemouth, Scotland – a first...
15.07.2015
- AkzoNobel's carbon credits methodology for the shipping industry has won the Best Offsetting Project award in the 2015 Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings. Based on nominations from...
14.07.2015
- After a series of accidents at plants in the states of Texas, New Jersey, and Louisiana, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said it planned to place...
14.07.2015
- BP Zhuhai Chemical has officially started up its Phase 3 PTA unit at Zhuhai, China. The new plant built at a cost of more than €600 million by the 85:15 joint venture of oil and...
14.07.2015
- French chemical producer Arkema and the French subsidiary of Canada’s Hydro-Québec, SCE France, have agreed a research partnership for energy storage chemicals. In particular, the...
