22.05.2017
- Dutch specialty chemicals distributor IMCD has purchased Bossco Industries in the US for an undisclosed sum. Located in Houston, Texas, Bossco supplies products and technical...
18.05.2017
- The European Commission (EC) is investigating South African pharmaceutical producer Aspen Pharmacare on charges it raised the price of five cancer drugs by “several hundred per...
17.05.2017
- Through debottlenecking, German engineering plastics producer Covestro will further expand production capacity for polycarbonate at its Caojing site in Shanghai, China, by a third...
16.05.2017
- Even though it is in the throes of finalizing a merger with DuPont, Dow Chemical has announced investments totalling $4 billion over the next five years. Plans include an expansion...
16.05.2017
- Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU), a public-private partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), is backing a new project in which French...
15.05.2017
- GCP Applied Technologies, a US provider of specialty chemicals and materials to the building and construction industries, has agreed to buy the UK’s Stirling Lloyd for $94 million...
11.05.2017
- As digitization becomes increasingly essential to commerce, Air Products has signed a cooperation agreement with China Petrochemical International (Chongqing), a subsidiary of...
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...
