05.05.2015
- Dow Chemical has announced it will slash around 1,500-1,750 jobs, up to 3% of its global workforce, as part of a plan to reduce costs by $1 billion over three years. The US...
04.05.2015
- Azelis has been appointed by Evonik as distributor for the Aerosil & Sipernat range of products in the Nordic region with effect from April 1, 2015. The two companies describe the...
04.05.2015
- PTT Global Chemical, Thailand's state-owned chemical company, and Marubeni Corp., a Japanese trading and investment house, have chosen a site in the US state of Ohio, near Wheeling...
04.05.2015
- Dow Chemical has started up a new 200,000 t/y polyether polyols plant at Map Ta Phut, Thailand. The facility using DMC catalyst technology will join a propylene glycol plant opened...
04.05.2015
- Belgium-based battery materials technology leader Umicore has publicly responded to BASF's allegations that it breached the German chemical giant's patents for nickel-cobalt...
30.04.2015
- Amid discussions of the viability of shale gas-fed petrochemical plants as crude oil prices continue to taper off, at least one US cracker project is definitely going ahead...
30.04.2015
- BASF has begun trial operations at its 400,000 t/y mononitrobenzene plant at Chongqing, in western China. The new facility will feed the group's integrated MDI complex at the same...
30.04.2015
- Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies division has opened a new plant at Zhangjiagang City in China's Jiangsu Province to produce state-of the-art catalysts used in...
30.04.2015
- Still being pursued by Israeli generics giant Teva, Netherlands-based drugmaker Mylan has increased its offer to acquire the issued and to-be-issued shares of smaller generics...
