19.03.2015
- Based on its recent analysis of the European plasticizers market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized chemical company Oxea with the ‘2014 European Non-Phthalate Plasticizers Product...
13.03.2015
- The worldwide chemicals economy withstood the strong headwinds battering the industry again in 2014. Financial results reported by companies in Europe and North America showed a...
10.03.2015
- Germany's Wacker Chemie is expanding its vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions production facilities by 85,000 t/y at its Calvert City, Kentucky site in the US. The...
05.03.2015
- Axalta Coating Systems is building a new plant for waterborne coatings at Shanghai to supply China's growing automobile market. The company said construction of the plant, one of...
05.03.2015
- Germany's Wacker Chemie is building a new 3,800 t/y plant for specialty monomers at its Burghausen site. The new €8 million unit will produce vinyl neodecanoate and vinyl laurate...
26.02.2015
- Atlas Holding, the holding for pan-European specialty chemicals distributor Azelis, has signed a binding agreement to sell the company to funds advised by gloal private equity...
23.02.2015
- Norwegian fertilizer producer Yara International and Germany's BASF plan to build a world scale ammonia plant at BASF's site in Freeport, Texas, using hydrogen as raw material. The...
16.02.2015
- Air Liquide plans to invest around $170 million in a plant to supply oxygen for Chinese petrochemical giant Yuhuang Chemical's planned methanol manufacturing complex in St. James...
13.02.2015
- Swiss fine and specialty chemicals producer Lonza has signed a toll manufacturing agreement with TiGenix, an advanced biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and...
10.02.2015
- A little background: over the past seven-plus months, the price of a barrel of oil dropped from $107 to less than $50. This took prices to 2009 levels and surprised just about...