18.03.2011
- The venture capital arm of Google has invested in a start-up that is developing technology to produce fuel from inedible biomass such as grass and wood chips. The process, deployed...
18.03.2011
- U.S. biotech company Genzyme said on Thursday it planned joint research projects with Russian high-tech centre ChemRar, joining a growing number of global drugmakers seeking to...
18.03.2011
- The Chief Executive of Lanxess, Axel Heitmann, said on Thursday the rubber chemicals specialist is screening the market for small to medium-sized takeover opportunities.
18.03.2011
- South Korea's third-largest crude oil refiner S-Oil said in a statement on Thursday that it would supply 2.4 million barrels of oil products to quake-hit Japan as requested by...
17.03.2011
- Salt tends to cake when transported or stored without special additives. So back in the 1950s we developed ferrocyanide (also called YPS), a powerful anti-caking agent for salt...
17.03.2011
- Following are main developments after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and crippled a nuclear power station, raising the risk of uncontrolled radiation....
17.03.2011
- Australia's competition watchdog cleared Cargill's A$1.24 billion acquisition of the commodity management business Agrium acquired with its takeover of Australia's AWB. "The ACCC...
17.03.2011
- South Korea's OCI said in a regulatory filing on Thursday it had won an order to supply polycrystalline silicon worth 641.2 billion won ($565.7 million) to China's Changzhou Trina...
17.03.2011
- South Korea's Hanjin P&C said on Thursday it had won a $258 million deal to buy fuel oil from Russia via an intermediary and sell it to China's oil chemical company Shandong Sem by...
17.03.2011
- Specialty chemicals company Ashland on Wednesday said Chairman and Chief Executive James O'Brien will have surgery to fix a perforated colon and be out for two to three months. The...
