23.04.2018
- AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Ineos Nitrile that will allow it to expand its biodegradable chelates output in Europe. Terms of the...
20.04.2018
- Germany’s Merck KGaA has signed an agreement to sell its global consumer health business to Procter & Gamble (P&G) for around €3.4 billion, or $4.2 billion, in cash. The...
19.04.2018
- Air Liquide has signed a long-term contract to supply hydrogen to Covestro’s production site in the port area of Antwerp, Belgium. The French industrial gases group will invest €80...
19.04.2018
- European drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline of the UK and Novartis of Switzerland have agreed to contribute to a nearly $4 billion global research effort to fight drug-resistant strains of...
18.04.2018
- Spanish energy and chemicals company Cepsa has announced plans to spend €100 million to upgrade and expand capacity of linear alkylbenzene (LAB) at its Puente Mayorga plant in San...
17.04.2018
- For the global specialty chemicals sector, the past two years have been among the most exciting of the young millennium. Many mergers and acquisitions were in the spotlight in 2017...
17.04.2018
- Mitsui Chemicals America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals, has announced plans to build a new production facility for its Milastomer thermoplastic olefin...
17.04.2018
- German specialty chemicals producer Evonik is expanding its production capacity for methacrylate crosslinkers, sold under the Visiomer brand name, at its US complex in Mobile...
16.04.2018
- Just a day after signing a major deal with Total for a giant petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco has inked another Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an...
13.04.2018
- Kemira has announced plans to invest a multi-million euro sum to expand production of chlor-alkali at its site in Joutseno, Finland. The additional capacity is expected to be...
