03.09.2013
- BASF is stepping up its pressure on Germany to soften its hesitant stance on shale gas exploitation. In presenting Q2 results in July, CEO Kurt Bock said he hoped the new...
02.09.2013
- Getting Serious About Pollution? - According to a report by the World Health Organization, seven of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are in China. Depending on the method...
02.09.2013
- Dow Chemical has confirmed the locations for its planned new shale gas-fed polymer plants on the U.S. Gulf Coast, announced in March of this year and expected to be in full...
02.09.2013
- Brent futures fell more than a dollar to a one-week low below $113 on Monday, with supply disruption worries receding as a military strike against Syria looked less imminent. Fears...
02.09.2013
- Belgium's Solvay and Saudi Arabia's Sadara Chemical Company have established a joint venture to produce hydrogen peroxide in Saudi Arabia. A new 300,000 t/y facility planned to...
02.09.2013
- Generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said it will stop the development of a depression treatment after a late-stage trial failed to show the drug was more effective...
30.08.2013
- BASF and Ineos are seeking to quell speculation over impending ownership changes at their 50:50 styrenic polymers joint venture Styrolution after the jv's CEO Roberto Gualdoni was...
30.08.2013
- German chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer Merck KGaA has appointed James Stewart as its new chief information officer, succeeding Frédéric Wohlwend, who the company said has...
30.08.2013
- Thomas Hartmann has been named managing director and industrial relations director of BASF Coatings with effect from Sept. 1, 2013. Hartmann, who succeeds Eva Müller in the...
29.08.2013
- China's environment ministry will stop approving some new refining projects and upgrades of existing facilities by the country's top state-owned oil firms after the two failed to...
