19.02.2019
- Two months behind schedule, South African petrochemicals producer Sasol has started up the first of seven production units planned for its delayed complex at Lake Charles...
18.02.2019
- Swiss engineering and technology group Casale has agreed to build a 660 t/d nitric acid plant for Borsodchem in Hungary. The plant at Kazincbarcika will produce 68% strength acid...
18.02.2019
- Japanese companies Mitsui & Co. and Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha (ISK) have signed a binding agreement to jointly acquire a 25% stake in Brazilian agrochemical company, Ouro Fino Quimica...
15.02.2019
- Afyren, a young French biochemicals company, is pressing ahead with plans for industrial scale production of bio-based organic acids from recovered non-food biomass through a...
14.02.2019
- In the era of big data and a growing interest in Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, the pressure to innovate is especially strong in the process-enabling industries. As...
13.02.2019
- Arkema is due to open a polyester resin plant in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, on Feb. 13, adding to its existing plants in Sant Celoni, Spain, and North Kansas City, Missouri...
12.02.2019
- Airgas, a division of French industrial gases group Air Liquide, has agreed to acquire TA Corporate Holdings (Tech Air) from its management and CI Capital Partners for an...
08.02.2019
- French green chemistry company Carbios and its subsidiary Carbiolice have signed a development agreement with Danish enzymes producer Novozymes. Under the terms of the multi-year...
07.02.2019
- DSM has agreed to form a joint venture with China’s Nenter & Co., which will give the Dutch chemicals and life sciences company an exclusive supply of vitamin E. The jv, which will...
06.02.2019
- Janssen, the pharmaceuticals arm of Johnson & Johnson, is once again collaborating with US clinical-stage gene therapy company MeiraGTx to develop and commercialize treatments for...
