31.10.2018
- BASF and Sinopec have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand their existing joint venture and build a second steam cracker in Nanjing, China. The companies said the...
30.10.2018
- Activist investor Trian wants PPG Industries to oust its CEO Michael McGarry and replace him with former chairman and CEO Charles Bunch, while also suggesting the US paintmaker...
30.10.2018
- Germany’s BASF and Korea’s KOLON PLASTICS have started up a new $220 million, 70,000 t/y plant for the engineering plastic polyoxymethylene (POM) at their 50:50 joint venture KOLON...
29.10.2018
- Strong demand for high-performance sealing applications has prompted Belgium’s Solvay to expand capacity of its Tecnoflon fluoroelastomers in Changshu, China, and Spinetta Marengo...
26.10.2018
- East Rutherford, NJ/USA-based Cambrex Corporation is investing approximately $3 million to increase the capacity and efficiency of one of its cGMP manufacturing facilities at its...
26.10.2018
- Integrated pharma supplier ACG Group has consolidated its portfolio into four businesses: Capsules; Films & Foils; Engineering; and Inspection The “new dynamic shift” will allow...
26.10.2018
- Nouryon, formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, is joining major steel manufacturer Tata Steel and the Port of Amsterdam to study the feasibility of establishing a green hydrogen...
25.10.2018
- Daniele Ferrari, CEO of ENI’s plastics subsidiary Versalis and current president of the European plastics manufacturers association PlasticsEurope, has taken on a new...
25.10.2018
- In a call to action last from Oct.1-21, members of the British trade union Unite voted overwhelmingly to restore the union’s right to conduct collective bargaining at the Ineos...
24.10.2018
- US specialty polymers producer PolyOne has commissioned a new plant for thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) at its complex in Pune, India. The new facility is complemented by a...