29.07.2013
- Croda International has acquired Arizona Chemical's specialty products business in Jacksonville, Florida. The acquisition brings Croda a portfolio of oil gelling polymers, further...
26.07.2013
- Profit warnings by German heavyweights BASF and Siemens hit the country's stock index on Thursday and cast a shadow over the broader European market, which was seen vulnerable to...
26.07.2013
- Bayer MaterialScience has confirmed 2015 as the start-up date for commercial scale production facility of polyether of polycarbonate polyols made from CO2 feedstock. The new plant...
26.07.2013
- Styron Europe, part of the former Dow Chemical styrenics activities spun off in 2010 and subsequently sold to private equity, is selling its European expandable polystyrene (EPS)...
25.07.2013
- China's official news agency hinted that more foreign pharmaceutical firms could soon be implicated in a corruption scandal sweeping the industry, in the wake of bribery...
25.07.2013
- Swiss drug maker Novartis suffered a fresh blow to the turnaround prospects of its loss-making vaccines division as a key committee advised against including its meningitis B...
25.07.2013
- Syngenta said on Wednesday it expected underlying sales growth to pick up pace in the second half of the year, after a cold, wet spring hit earnings in the first six months...
25.07.2013
- The controversial findings of a new shale gas study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and conducted by the department's National Energy Technology Laboratory in...
25.07.2013
- A "shameful" corruption scandal in China will inevitably impact GlaxoSmithKline's business, the British drug maker's chief executive said on Wednesday, adding he was ready to go to...
24.07.2013
- Crack To The Future - The petrochemical feedstock world is changing. Historically most petrochemical feedstock came from the refinery, with refinery naphtha and liquefied petroleum...
