20.10.2016
- The board of directors of Hungarian oil and gas group MOL has approved the company’s new long-term strategy in which it aims to become a leading chemical player in central and...
20.10.2016
- German pharmaceutical and chemicals producer Merck KGaA has expanded capacity at its biotech plant in Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain, by 50% at a cost of €15 million. The facility is...
20.10.2016
- Two days after the explosion that killed three people at BASF’s main production site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, neither a suspected cause had been officially determined nor the...
19.10.2016
- Russian petrochemical giant Sibur has agreed to take a technology license for the production of maleic anhydride (MA) from Italian engineering contractor Conser for use in a plant...
17.10.2016
- Rising demand for nylon has prompted Japan’s Ube Industries to raise capacity in Castellon, Spain, by 40,000 t/y. The expansion will lift total production at subsidiary Ube...
13.10.2016
- CMC Biologics and IDT Biologika announced the addition of Cerbios and Oncotec Pharma to PROVEO, their strategic collaboration for providing a complete and efficient solution to the...
11.10.2016
- After signing a letter of intent in March, BASF and Dutch renewables company Avantium have formed a joint venture named Synvina to commercialize the new polymer...
11.10.2016
- The European Parliament’s (EP) recently revised rules to prevent trade in goods and services that may contribute to torture or execution could potentially have further knock-on...
10.10.2016
- Italian bioplastics producer Novamont has started up what is said to be the world’s first commercial plant for bio-production of a major intermediate, 1,4-butanediol (BDO). The...
05.10.2016
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2016 has been awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg, France, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University, Evanston...