10.05.2019
- Evonik is repositioning its Germany-based business with polyamide-based high-performance polymers to concentrate on attractive growth markets such as automotive, oil and gas, 3D...
30.04.2019
- As the end of April and international Labor Day May 1 approached, 240 striking union members at a Dow specialty chemicals production site in Deer Park, Texas remained locked out...
11.04.2019
- The chemical industry is one of the most international sectors with activity dominated by cross border transactions. Chinese and other Asian firms have been particularly busy...
10.04.2019
- Harris County, Texas, in the US Gulf Coast’s petrochemicals belt is reeling from the second chemical accident within two weeks. On Apr. 2, fire ravaged a plant owned by toll...
10.04.2019
- In reaction to increasing global demand, German chemical producer Evonik has begun a project to double production of its Trogamid CX-branded transparent polyamides at the Marl...
31.03.2019
- The county attorney of Harris County in Texas, Vince Ryan, has sued Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) over the multi-day blaze at its storage facility in the Deer Park...
26.03.2019
- Invista’s technology and licensing arm, Invista Performance Technologies, has agreed to supply its PTA technology to Pan-Asia PET Resin (Guangzhou province, China) for a new plant...
25.03.2019
- At least 64 people have died after a pesticide plant exploded in China, one of the country’s worst accidents in recent years. The incident occurred around 2:50 p.m. local time on...
19.03.2019
- The race to acquire Bayer’s animal health business appears to be heating up. According to the Bloomberg news agency, quoting sources, the German group stands to take in as much as...
15.03.2019
- The Indian state of Odisha has approved plans by Haldia Petrochemicals to spend around $4 billion on an integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex, which would include...
