17.10.2014
- Jean-Pierre Clamadieu was elected president of the European Chemistry Council CEFIC at the chemical trade body's annual meeting on Oct. 17 in Paris, France. He succeeds BASF...
17.10.2014
- Two European ethanol producers, Belgium's Alcogroup and Sweden's Lantmannen Agroetanol, have been raided by EU competition authorities as part of a 17-month long investigation into...
17.10.2014
- The US shale gas boom is leading to construction of petrochemical and plastics production facilities in regions that have never before seen similar investment. US plastics...
17.10.2014
- BASF is selling its textile chemicals business for an undisclosed sum to Archroma, a Reinach, Switzerland-based company owned by private equity investor SK Capital Partners.Still...
16.10.2014
- India's Nuberg Engineering has won a $15 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a chlor-alkali plant being built by Al Ghaith Industries in Abu Dhabi...
16.10.2014
- BASF India has inaugurated a €150 million chemical production complex at Dahej in India's Gujarat state. It is the German group's single largest investment in the country. The...
16.10.2014
- Bayer soon may find itself regretting its decision to sell its plastics business and become a pure life science player. According to international press reports, the German group's...
16.10.2014
- Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta has petitioned the US environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase the legal tolerance for residues of several crop protection agents...
15.10.2014
- Germany's SGL Group has completed its capital increase announced at the end of September. The company said the 0.18 million new shares offered were nearly all subscribed and have...
15.10.2014
- The American section of France's chemical industry association Société de Chimie Industrielle will award its 2015 International Palladium Medal to DuPont chair and CEO Ellen...
