05.02.2015
- Ashland Performance Materials has announced Büfa Chemikalien and Vivochem as official sales partners for its Intermediates and Solvents Business for Germany, Belgium and the...
05.02.2015
- CEO Maria das Graças Foster and other senior management at Brazil's Petrobras, parent company of chemical producer Braskem, resigned on Feb. 4 amid a corruption scandal. Resigning...
05.02.2015
- Business is looking up for the European plastics industry, says the trade association PlasticsEurope. In 2014, the association said plastics production continued to recover from...
05.02.2015
- DSM is investing an undisclosed "substantial" sum to upgrade its production facilities for waterborne resins for inks and coatings at Wilmington, Massachusetts in the US. The Dutch...
04.02.2015
- In January 2015 the Krahn Chemie Group has taken over the distribution of the specialty plasticizers of the Beldium-based Ferro in the regions Germany, Austria, Switzerland...
04.02.2015
- US styrenics, latex and rubber producer Styron has now officially changed its name to Trinseo. The company had previously changed the name of some of its legal entities. The former...
04.02.2015
- The venture capital arms of two international drugmakers in late January participated in a $20 million Atlas fund-raising initiative to benefit the development of a new quick...
04.02.2015
- Air Liquide has agreed to invest €60m to fund a new state-of-the-art 1,400 t/d air separation unit set to start up in 2016 at the Port Pirie, Australia, production site of Nyrstar...
04.02.2015
- US chemical producer Eastman has begun mandatory consultations with its UK trade unions about a plan to close its 30,000 t/y acetate tow plant at Workington. The group based at...
