21.10.2013
- Brazilian oil workers said on Friday they managed to reduce oil and fuels output from state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro for a second day after launching a strike for higher...
21.10.2013
- Ineos is not bluffing with its plan to shut Scotland's Grangemouth oil refinery within weeks unless workers agree by a Monday deadline to accept proposed cuts in terms and...
18.10.2013
- Wolfgang Büchele, former CEO of Finnish chemical producer Kemira and Hungarian chemical producer BorsodChem, has been designated to head German gases and engineering group Linde on...
18.10.2013
- Leading Japanese carbon fibers manufacturer Toray is buying out its U.S. rival, family-owned Zoltek, for $584 million in cash, effective from the beginning of 2014, of earlier. The...
18.10.2013
- Styrolution, the Frankfurt, Germany-based styrenics joint venture of BASF and Ineos, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Brazilian plastics giant Braskem on a 100...
18.10.2013
- As the European Union prepares to restrict the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, suspected by some of at least contributing to the phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)...
18.10.2013
- Just ahead of the international plastics trade fair K 2013, Celanese announced a rebranding initiative that, among other things, changes the name of its German-based engineering...
18.10.2013
- As a step toward divesting more than $1.5 billion worth of assets it no longer considers core businesses by mid-to-late 2014, Dow Chemical is selling its global polypropylene...
17.10.2013
- North Dakota's rapidly rising oil output continues to defy the skeptics, who have predicted that production would stop growing as declining output from existing wells offsets extra...
16.10.2013
- Ineos began temporarily shuttering production at its mammoth petrochemicals site in Grangemouth, Scotland on October 15 after walking out of the ongoing mediation process with the...
