03.08.2018
- Fifty years after the legendary British speedboat racer Donald Campbell died trying to break his own water speed record, his famous hydroplane Bluebird is making a triumphant...
01.08.2018
- KBR has received a reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract from Methanex for a proposed world-scale methanol plant in Geismar, Louisiana...
31.07.2018
- Japan’s Tanaka Kikinzoku group has inaugurated 4 billion yen (nearly €31 million) expansion of its Fuel Cell (FC) Catalyst Development Center at the Shonan plant in Kanagawa...
31.07.2018
- Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has agreed to sell commercial rights to Atacand (candesartan cilexetil) and Atacand Plus (fixed-dose combination of candesartan cilexetil and...
26.07.2018
- Shintech, the US subsidiary of Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical, has started building the first phase of an integrated VCM/PVC complex at a site next to its existing plant in Plaquemine...
20.07.2018
- As part of an initiative by the Mirpuri Foundation a Hi Fly-owned aircraft was painted with a striking livery depicting coral reefs. One side represents a pristine ocean with...
20.07.2018
- CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council, expects modest chemical production growth of 1.5% in the European Union in both 2018 and 2019. Growth will be similar to that...
19.07.2018
- France’s Mersen, known as a global expert in electrical power and advanced materials, has acquired Louisville Graphite (LGI), a full-service company specialized in design...
16.07.2018
- Tronox has submitted to the European Commission a definitive agreement to sell its paper laminate grade of titanium dioxide (TiO2) to Venator Materials, Huntsman’s former TiO2 and...
16.07.2018
- Spanish energy and chemicals group Cepsa has contracted US technology company Honeywell UOP to convert a linear alkyl benzene (LAB) plant at its refinery in San Roque. Honeywell...