07.10.2013
- Oil refiner Ineos has written down the value of its Grangemouth, UK petrochemical plant to zero, it said, further raising the stakes in a complex dispute with workers at the...
04.10.2013
- Maximizing Oil Fields' Output - Oil producers have resorted to innovative techniques to retrieve trapped oil from rock, sandstone and other formations. In most cases, stimulation...
04.10.2013
- Borrowing From EU Approaches - The EU's Reach regulation (EC 1907/2006) enacted a comprehensive approach to chemicals, sweeping away four decades of legislation in 2007. All 31...
02.10.2013
- Lars Hultman, of Linköping University, and Per Claesson, from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), will receive their awards at a special event in Stockholm as well as a...
02.10.2013
- Sabo announces that it has entered into an agreement with BASF for a license of the Chimassorb 2020 technology. Chimassorb 2020 combines exceptionally high UV and long-term thermal...
02.10.2013
- Borealis announced the sale of its proprietary Melamine high pressure process technology and its newly developed super high pressure process technology and all related intellectual...
02.10.2013
- Archroma has been officially launch as a newly formed global color and specialty chemicals company that comprises the former Textile Specialties, Paper Solutions and Emulsion...
02.10.2013
- U.S. health regulators expanded the approval of Roche's breast cancer drug Perjeta and will now allow its use to help shrink tumors prior to surgery, the FDA said. The decision...
01.10.2013
- Ineos announced what it described as a "survival plan" to keep in operation the petrochemical plant attached to its refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland, involving job cuts and...
01.10.2013
- Fixing ailing drugmaker AstraZeneca remains a work in progress for Chief Executive Pascal Soriot, with sales and profits still heading firmly downhill after his first year in the...