28.04.2014
- BASF plans to invest €4-16 million during 2014 to expand its photoinitiator production at Mortara, Italy. The cash injection is designed to strengthen the competitiveness of the...
28.04.2014
- Citing an independent report, exploration company Egdon Resources now estimates that its UK shale gas licences hold around 18 trillion cubic feet of gas, enough to supply Britain...
28.04.2014
- Germany's Bayer and British consumer products giant Reckitt are said to have emerged as frontrunners to win the auction for the Merck & Co consumer products unit, each reportedly...
25.04.2014
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess is in the process of restarting its 150,000 t/y butyl rubber plant at Zwijndrecht, near Antwerp, Belgium, after a nine-week strike that...
25.04.2014
- At the mammoth plastics trade fair Chinaplas, Celanese announced plans to expand compounding capacity for "Fortron" PPS compounds at its integrated site at Nanjing, China up to the...
25.04.2014
- AstraZeneca has unveiled plans to sell or partner infection and neuroscience units with combined 2013 sales of $3.5 billion and a basis in antibiotics and antipsychotics as well as...
25.04.2014
- Amid discussions of Europe importing shale-gas derived feedstocks to reduce dependence on Russian gas, U.S.-based Enterprise Products Partners has announced plans to build a fully...
25.04.2014
- Quaker Chemical and Den Hartogh Liquid Logistics signed a three-year contract, renewing their cooperation that originated in 2011. The agreement allows for bulk liquid...
24.04.2014
- Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and activist investor Bill Ackman have made an unsolicited $47 billion bid to buy Botox maker Allergan in a move to create one of the...
24.04.2014
- In a deal set to close later this year, Schenectady, New York-based SI Group, a leading producer of phenolic resins, alkylphenolic resins and akylkated phenols, plans to acquire...
