The process industry in Western Europe is characterised by high product quality. At the same time, the financial crisis, the current recession, high personnel and raw...
14.07.2010
- Hungarian isocyanate producer BorsodChem stopped production in its plant at the northern Hungarian town of Kazincbarcika due to a technical failure, it said in a statement on...
02.07.2010
- The Global Personal Care business of Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry is pleased to announce the appointment of Ra'eda Asad as hair care project leader, based in Bridgewater, New...
The HallStar Company - The HallStar Company, a specialty chemical company headquartered in Chicago, Ill., introduces HallBrite PSF, a new, photostabilizing silicone fluid that photostabilizes the active...
22.06.2010
- According to calculations from the Institute for Research of Small and Midsize Businesses in Bonn (IfM), 208,000 start-up companies were founded in Germany in the first half of...
07.06.2010
- A court on Monday found the Indian unit of U.S. chemicals firm Union Carbide and seven Indian employees guilty of negligence over one of the world's worst industrial accidents that...
07.06.2010
- Haggling over liabilities is holding up an otherwise done deal between BASF and the private equity owners of Cognis, several sources told Reuters. Talks over the sale of the...
02.06.2010
- BASF has in principle agreed with the private equity owners of Cognis on a takeover of the German maker of additives, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. BASF, the world's largest...
27.05.2010
- With suitors circling German chemicals maker Cognis, according to sources, the company's finance chief gave them a price tag its private equity owners might have in mind to wrap up...
27.05.2010
- Top Pfizer research executive Martin Mackay has left the world's biggest drugmaker to head research at rival AstraZeneca as both companies brace for patent expirations on their top...