04.04.2016
- Is there a proven management recipe for turning a chemical industry spinoff into a success story? Camelot Management Consultants analyzed the history and performance of 20 such...
04.04.2016
- Dow Chemical has agreed to fund Irish start-up OxyMem, a spin-off of University College of Dublin (UCD) with a pledge said to be worth millions of euros. The fledgling company...
04.04.2016
- Swiss construction chemicals company Sika has purchased US-based L.M. Scofield, a leading family-owned producer of concrete color additives for ready-mixed concrete and decorative...
31.03.2016
- The governors of three US states have asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help with additional drinking water testing and analysis in communities exposed to...
24.03.2016
- With France’s Total, another Western petrochemicals player is moving back into Iran now that sanctions have been lifted. Various units of the vast group are seen to be negotiating...
23.03.2016
- The theme for this year’s World Water Day proclaimed by the United Nations for March 22 was “Water and Jobs”. In getting the message out, the UN and its partners have underscored...
23.03.2016
- MEGlobal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kuwait’s Equate Petrochemical, has announced it will build a world-scale MEG plant at Dow Chemical’s Oyster Creek site in Freeport, Texas...
22.03.2016
- Process gases from chemical plants are regarded as a valuable energy source today and are being further used as combustion gases. As a result, service providers have come into...
21.03.2016
- A dockworkers strike at the Port of Grangemouth in Scotland that had threatened to hit supplies of refinery fuel and thus petrochemicals to southern Scotland and northern England...
18.03.2016
- Air Products & Chemicals is in advanced talks to sell its performance materials business to Evonik Industries, news agencies have reported. A deal for the business, called Versum...
