18.11.2013
- EU environment commissioner Janez Potocnik has called for a uniform risk management framework for shale gas exploration across member states that would reap the long-term economic...
18.11.2013
- German chemical group Evonik is spending more than €100m capacity upgrade for isophorone and isophorone diamine at its Shanghai, China, complex. The expansion, designed to meet...
18.11.2013
- Lanxess has increased capacity for the high-performance intermediate cresol at Leverkusen, Germany, by 20% at a cost of €20 million. The Cologne-based specialty chemicals producer...
18.11.2013
- As part of the long-running discussion about German energy priorities in the country's post-nuclear age, which has taken center stage in the negotiations on forming a new federal...
18.11.2013
- Styrolution, the 50:50 joint venture of Ineos and BASF, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Brazilian petchems giant Braskem for a styrenics joint venture in Brazil...
18.11.2013
- Belgian chemical group Solvay has licensed its technology for fluorinated polymers to China's Shanghai 3F New Material Co. as part of an 80:20 joint venture agreement covering...
18.11.2013
- Sabic Innovative Plastics, the engineering polymers arm of the Saudi group, will close its ABS plant at Washington, West Virginia in the U.S. and sell the property to investors...
18.11.2013
- China will open its energy conservation and environment protection industries to foreign and private investment, state media reported Friday, quoting comments by premier Li Keqiang...
18.11.2013
- A senior official at a state-run Omani oil company went on trial on Thursday on charges of taking a bribe, in a case closely watched in the Gulf Sultanate, which has pledged to...
18.11.2013
- Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom ratcheted up the pressure on Ukraine in a gas pricing dispute, saying its western neighbor did not have enough gas in its reservoirs to ensure...
