10.12.2014
- Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has inaugurated its new 300,000 t/y TDI plant at Dormagen, Germany, built at a cost of €250 million. The world-scale facility replaces a smaller...
10.12.2014
- DuPont is under scrutiny from US federal records over a series of accidents involving toxic chemicals over the past seven years. At least eight fatalities have resulted from the 34...
10.12.2014
- Neste Jacobs, a solutions provider in project management and control, engineering, procurement, construction, installation, pre-commissioning and commissioning solutions for a wide...
09.12.2014
- As part of its drive to become an integrated solution provider for thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) and TPU-based adhesives, BASF is acquiring Taiwan Sheen Soon (TWSS), a producer...
09.12.2014
- PlasticsEurope, the organization representing plastics manufacturers, has slammed the French government's list of possible alternatives to bisphenol A as an "unrealistic...
09.12.2014
- US chemical producer Eastman has completed its acquisition of compatriot Taminco for $2.8 billion in cash and assumed debt of an estimated $1 billion. Eastman said the acquired...
09.12.2014
- At a special meeting held at the Sigma-Aldrich Life Science and Technology Center in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 78% of the company's shareholders approved the planned takeover by...
08.12.2014
- As part of its plan to shed non-core assets, Dow Chemical has agreed to sell its sodium borohydride business and a polyolefin films plant in the US Ohio for a total of $225 million...
08.12.2014
- Geneva, Switzerland-based SGS Life Science Services, a leading provider of pharmaceutical, clinical and bioanalytical contract solutions, has announced plans to more than double...
05.12.2014
- BASF expects its long-planned major asset swap deal with Russia's Gazprom to be completed by the end of the year, CEO Kurt Bock said at a press conference on the occasion of the...
