08.05.2017
- South Africa’s competition commission has conditionally approved Bayer’s plan to acquire Monsanto, thus becoming the first antitrust authority to do so. It will require divestments...
08.05.2017
- Saudi chemicals giant SABIC has invested an undisclosed sum in Dutch composites specialist Airborne International as part of a growth financing round by existing shareholders. The...
05.05.2017
- Sadara, the joint venture of Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco, has started up a new 50,000 t/y high-pressure LDPE plant at its complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Like the three PE...
04.05.2017
- China has become the second major trading bloc to conditionally approve the proposed $130 merger of US chemical giants Dow and DuPont. The green light from the Ministry of Commerce...
02.05.2017
- Chinese petrochemical producer Mingyuan Holdings has announced plans to build a $2.3 billion methanol-to-olefins (MTO) plant alongside a giant greenfield methanol complex at the...
28.04.2017
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess will invest EUR 25m in its Lillo complex in Antwerp, Belgium’s harbor during 2017. The company said most of the money will be spent on...
28.04.2017
- German pharmaceuticals and chemicals producer Merck is divesting its Biosimilars business to compatriot firm Fresenius Kabi, a unit of medical technology and healthcare group...
27.04.2017
- Qatar Airways Cargo will commence its fourth Pharma Express freighter service operating from Basel, effective 8 May. The additional freighter for pharmaceuticals and healthcare...
27.04.2017
- The notion of transforming process engineering production from the batch principle to continuous flow processes based on micro- and milli-reactors may not always be so easy for...
