03.12.2015
- Oil and petrochemicals giant Shell declared force majeure on production of base chemical products from its Bukom plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island on Dec. 1, citing a technical...
03.12.2015
- Croda International has agreed to buy Dutch seeds enhancement business Incotec for €155 million. Incotec supplies proprietary and sustainable technologies for vegetable seeds and...
02.12.2015
- US biopharmaceutical company Baxalta has received European marketing approval for its hemophilia treatment Obizur. The drug is said to be the first recombinant porcine sequence...
01.12.2015
- In another step aimed at increasing its business with India’s growing automotive sector, LyondellBasell has agreed to acquire the polypropylene compounding assets of Zylog...
01.12.2015
- Indonesian energy group Pertamina and Saudi Aramco, the state-owned Saudi Arabian oil company, have signed a heads of agreement for joint ownership, operation and upgrade of the...
20.11.2015
- Chemours, which encompasses the Performance Chemicals business spun off from DuPont in July, has said it will sell its Beaumont, Texas, plant to Dow Chemical, one of its main...
19.11.2015
- 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) is an important chemical intermediate product and raw material for plastics, solvents and synthetic fibers. The alcohol’s production capacities have been...
A good film needs excitement, drama, heroes and a happy ending. The construction of the world’s largest thermal solar power plant in Morocco has all of these.
18.11.2015
- Sweden’s Recipharm has agreed to extend a manufacturing and supply agreement for Erdosteine API with Korean drugs firm Daewoong Pharmaceutical. The existing contract has been...
18.11.2015
- Thailand’s Indorama (IVL), the current PET market leader, is further strengthening its position with the acquisition of competitor Cepsa Quimica’s assets in Spain. The Spanish...