22.10.2014
- Ashland said it has reached a "definitive agreement" to sell its Port Neches, Texas-based elastomers business to Lion Copolymer for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to...
21.10.2014
- Christophe de Margerie, chairman and CEO of French oil and petrochemicals giant Total, has been killed in a Russian aviation accident. Reports from Moscow said de Margerie, 63, was...
21.10.2014
- Specialty chemicals company Platform Specialty Products Corp has signed a "definitive agreement" to buy rival Arysta LifeScience for about $3.51 billion from an unnamed company...
20.10.2014
- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) announced Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals as the 2014 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) Overall Winner. Pfizer Ireland...
20.10.2014
- A Chinese drugmaker with military ties has sent an experimental Ebola drug to Africa for use by Chinese aid workers and is planning clinical trials there to combat the disease...
20.10.2014
- Mizushima Aroma Co, a joint venture of Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Toyobo, both of Japan, plans to phase out its 260,000 t/y production of polyester feedstock PTA by the end of the...
17.10.2014
- The US shale gas boom is leading to construction of petrochemical and plastics production facilities in regions that have never before seen similar investment. US plastics...
06.10.2014
- Mitsubishi Chemical has signed a feedstock supply agreement with Chinese state-owned oil company CNOOC to put its local production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA) on a more...
06.10.2014
- In a deal said to be worth £54 million, Swiss-based petrochemicals giant Ineos plans to buy out Finnish energy company Fortrum to take control of a gas-fired combined heat and...
06.10.2014
- Germany has switched on Europe's largest commercial battery plant, an installation powered by 25,600 lithium-ion batteries and designed to help stabilize the country's growing...