23.05.2014
- Some leading AstraZeneca shareholders were at odds over whether the British drugmaker made the right decision in rejecting Pfizer's final $118 billion bid to buy the company, news...
22.05.2014
- A British plan to compensate certain energy-intensive industries for higher energy costs resulting from its carbon price floor is in line with EU state aid rules, the European...
22.05.2014
- Venezuela plans to begin its first shale gas exploration campaign in western Lake Maracaibo as part of a joint venture with Brazil's state-run Petrobras. "We've approved the first...
22.05.2014
- German chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer Merck KGaA is participating in a new €2 million project sponsored by the country's research ministry, aimed at developing a fully...
22.05.2014
- India has imposed provisional antidumping duties on imports of phenol from the US and Taiwan, according to local reports. The duties, levied by the country's finance ministry in...
22.05.2014
- Shandong Chengtai Chemical Industry Co has selected the Catofin catalyst manufactured by Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant for a new grassroots iso-butane dehydrogenation...
21.05.2014
- Scientists at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands have registered patents for a new type of thermoset plastic, called glycix, said to be the only thermoset that is both...
21.05.2014
- El Dorado Chemical Co, the operator of a south Arkansas chemical plant that exploded in 2012, has filed a federal lawsuit in Oklahoma against Air Liquide, as supplier of industrial...
21.05.2014
- The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), the body that administers REACH, has opened a public consultation on proposed continued use of the flame retardant chemical...
21.05.2014
- Swiss pharmaceutical producer Roche plans to invest 120 million Swiss francs in new production facilities at Basel. Around €85 million of the total will go for new chemical...
