13.04.2011
- Styron, a global materials company spun out from Dow Chemicals in June 2010, has announced plans to change its company name to Trinseo. The name change will be fully effective in...
13.04.2011
- Japan's naphtha imports for the petrochemical sector fell 10% in March from the same month a year earlier, government figures showed on Wednesday, reflecting the impact of last...
13.04.2011
- An increase in the severity level of Japan's nuclear accident does not mean the public health risk is any worse or that the disaster resembles Chernobyl in 1986, global expert...
13.04.2011
- A 2.98% stake in Czech downstream oil group Unipetrol exchanged hands in a block trade of shares on Tuesday, the website of the Prague Stock Exchange showed. The deal, worth 999...
13.04.2011
- Fertilizer and specialty chemicals producer Israel Chemicals (ICL) said it will begin mining vast reserves of mineral salt polyhalite located at lower levels of its potash mines in...
12.04.2011
- Royal Dutch Shell said it would import products from around the region to replace output from its Clyde refinery in Australia, which it plans to convert into a fuel terminal in...
12.04.2011
- A federal appeals court threw out a lower court injunction that kept Mosaic Co. from operating a Florida phosphate mine, the fertilizer producer said. Last summer the Sierra Club...
12.04.2011
- Israel Chemicals bought Grupo Empresarial Agromediterraneo, the holding company of Antonio Fuentes Mendez, Spain's largest producer of specialty fertilisers, for an undisclosed sum...
12.04.2011
- U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co has formed a joint venture with India's Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd to develop and manufacture branded generic drugs for emerging markets, the two...
12.04.2011
- Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) said on Monday its joint venture with Albemarle had selected Samsung Engineering to provide engineering, procurement and construction services...
