23.10.2014
- In the small German village of Bothel, near Bremen, the recent publication of epidemiological findings that cases of leukemia and lymphoma in men in the years 2003 to 2012 were...
23.10.2014
- The EU Commission is stepping up its investigation of US chemical giants DuPont and Honeywell's business practices in developing automotive refrigerants. Begun in 2011, the probe...
23.10.2014
- As a further step in its ongoing strategic portfolio review, AkzoNobel has announced plans to sell its half of the non-consolidated 50:50 joint venture Eka Synthomer to its Germany...
22.10.2014
- Caldic, a distributor and producer of chemicals and food ingredients in Europe, Asia and North America acquired RoRe Technologies, a producer of silicone preparations based in...
- Merck Millipore has expanded its single-use film offerings with the introduction of PureFlex Plus film, a robust, durable film used in the construction of Mobius single-use process...
22.10.2014
- The Sadara project in Jubail Industrial City II in Saudi Arabia, expected by its participants to become one of the largest and most complicated engineering projects in the world so...
22.10.2014
- Private equity investor Hannover Finanz Group has taken a 28.6% share of Biesterfeld AG, the holding company for German chemicals and plastics distributor Biesterfeld Group. The...
22.10.2014
- Ashland said it has reached a "definitive agreement" to sell its Port Neches, Texas-based elastomers business to Lion Copolymer for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to...
21.10.2014
- Rafael Cayuela, former Commercial Director for Ethylene, Benzene and Styrene at Styron, has been appointed Director and Corporate Chief Economist at Dow Chemical. In this position...
21.10.2014
- Christophe de Margerie, chairman and CEO of French oil and petrochemicals giant Total, has been killed in a Russian aviation accident. Reports from Moscow said de Margerie, 63, was...
