23.03.2015
- Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, well-known as the REACh regulation, or Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of...
23.03.2015
- In February 2013, the Carlyle Group completed its acquisition of DuPont's Performance Coatings business for US$4.9 billion. Upon becoming an independent company, the business was...
20.03.2015
- BASF has selected Freeport, Texas, as the potential site for its planned 475,000 t/y world-scale methane-to-propylene complex on the US Gulf Coast. The facility will use Air...
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...
