03.02.2020
- Following all approvals and the transfer of its European polyamide business to Domo, Solvay has completed the sale of its non-European PA activities to BASF for €1.3 billion on a...
31.01.2020
- French industrial gases group Air Liquide has announced it is talking exclusively to German gases rival Messer about selling its entities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Air...
29.01.2020
- Catalent has appointed Ricci Whitlow as president of its Clinical Supply Services business unit. She succeeds Paul Hegwood, who will retire in March 2020. Whitlow has over 25 years...
29.01.2020
- Schrödinger, a New York, USA-based computational platform provider, and Germany’s Bayer entered into a 5-year technology alliance to develop a comprehensive de novo design solution...
29.01.2020
- BASF is investing in separate projects in Spain and Italy to hike capacity for polyurethane (PU) dispersions and its Irganox range of antioxidants. The group will spend a single...
29.01.2020
- Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca plans to invest up to $1 billion in a scheme it calls Ambition Zero Carbon, which as the name suggests is aimed at achieving zero carbon...
28.01.2020
- Thailand’s Indorama Ventures (IVL), the world’s largest PET producer, has created a new business segment under the name Integrated Oxide to incorporate the integrated ethylene...
27.01.2020
- Danish catalysis provider Haldor Topsoe has won a contract to supply its methanol technology to Russia’s Gas Sintez. The plant at the port of Vysotsk in the Leningrad region will...
24.01.2020
- French technology provider Axens has been awarded a contract by Borouge to supply units for methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), 1-butene and 1-hexene. The value of the contract was...
22.01.2020
- Many companies want to become agile. But what are concrete benefits of agile work methods? What are necessary preconditions? And in what scenarios are they most beneficial? Andrea...
