29.03.2018
- Despite a provisional agreement between the European Council and the British government on a 21-month transition phase for the country’s exit from the EU, the German chemical...
28.03.2018
- Major US engineering and construction group Fluor has been awarded a contract by MEGlobal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equate Petrochemical, to build its new MEG manufacturing...
28.03.2018
- Solvay Specialty Polymers has agreed to sell its hydrofluoric acid plant at Porto Marghera, Italy, to Alkeemia, part of the Fluorsid Group. Solvay uses the hydrofluoric acid as a...
28.03.2018
- In a move that may explain why GlaxoSmithKline last week turned thumbs down on bidding for Pfizer’s consumer drugs business, the UK’s largest drugmaker has announced plans to buy...
27.03.2018
- AkzoNobel has sold its Specialty Chemicals business to private equity investor Carlyle in partnership with GIC, the largest of Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds, for an enterprise...
26.03.2018
- As part of an overall plan to divest its global polycarbonate sheet business, German engineering plastics producer Covestro has announced it will sell the US business, based in...
25.03.2018
- ExxonMobil has outlined an aggressive growth strategy to more than double earnings and cash from operations by 2025. The program includes steps to increase earnings to $31 billion...
25.03.2018
- US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said it is continuing to weigh “strategical alternatives” for its consumer healthcare arm after the two perceived prime candidates to take over the...
23.03.2018
- US films producer MonoSol, a division of Japanese chemicals company Kuraray, is investing $72 million to build an additional manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Indiana...
23.03.2018
- Britain’s largest pharmaceutical producer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has estimated that its costs related to Brexit, the country’s leaving the EU, could run as high as £70 million over...