10.01.2014
- India's Tata Chemicals is restructuring of the soda ash and sodium bicarbonate business of its UK-based subsidiary Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE). The former Brunner Mond business...
10.01.2014
- In two patent cases brought against China's HySci (Tianjin) Specialty Materials, Solvay has been awarded damages of €670,000 and won a court order mandating that HySci immediately...
10.01.2014
- DuPont has named Mark Vergnano, head of the Performance chemicals division since 2008, as CEO of the independent company it is creating through the carve-out of the division. The...
09.01.2014
- ExxonMobil officially launched the world's first chemical unit that processes crude oil in Singapore, aiming to lower costs to better compete with rivals in a market saddled with...
09.01.2014
- Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras refined an average 2.03 million barrels a day of crude in the first 11 months of 2013, an amount equivalent to about 97% of its capacity...
09.01.2014
- Federal regulators are unlikely to step up enforcement of potential water contamination cases linked to natural gas drilling - despite new concerns about water safety - given a...
09.01.2014
- Spanish PET producer La Seda de Barcelona, in insolvency proceedings since June 2013, has filed a request with the Barcelona commercial court overseeing the proceedings to...
09.01.2014
- Indorama of Thailand, world's largest PET producer, and Abu Dhabi Chemicals Company (ChemaWEyaat) have agreed to form a 49:51 joint venture to produce aromatics at Al Gharbia in...
09.01.2014
- U.S. plastics compounder and distributor A. Schulman has paid $15.1 million to acquire Prime Colorants, a manufacturer of custom colors and additive concentrates in Franklin...
08.01.2014
- At the end of December 2013, AkzoNobel sold its Primary Amides business and a manufacturing facility at Kyungju, South Korea, for an undisclosed sum to PMC Group, based at Mount...
