01.02.2018
- US oil and gas company Enterprise Products Partners and UK shipping group Navigator Holdings have formed a 50:50 joint venture to build a 1 million t/y ethylene export terminal on...
01.02.2018
- Solvay will invest €6 million at its site in Rheinberg, Germany, to expand sodium bicarbonate capacity. Startup is planned by the end of 2018. Actual capacity figures were not...
31.01.2018
- Complete vertical integration to achieve consistent quality worldwide was the aim of Atotech, a global leader in the highly complex world of plating chemicals, equipment and...
30.01.2018
- French industrial gases group Air Liquide will invest around €100 million to build a new hydrogen plant for Kumho Mitsui Chemical (KMCI) at Yeosu, South Korea. The facility is...
29.01.2018
- US biotech Genomatica has signed a multi-year agreement with Italian nylon producer Aquafil to create sustainable caprolactam. The two companies aim to develop Genomatica’s GENO...
29.01.2018
- Shell and energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power have announced they will build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plant at the oil major’s refinery in Rhineland...
28.01.2018
- Titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer Tronox is suing the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleging that the antitrust regulator is trying to illegally block its proposed acquisition...
28.01.2018
- Japanese chemicals company Kaneka is investing around €15 million to expand capacity for Eperan PE and PP expanded particle foams at its Westerlo site in Belgium. The additional...
26.01.2018
- In a surprise move, Saudi Arabian petrochemicals and plastics producer SABIC has stepped in as a white knight to rescue Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant from the jaws of...
25.01.2018
- Mexichem has acquired Sylvin Technologies, a niche PVC compounds manufacturer, for $39 million on a debt-free and cash-free valuation basis. Located in Lancaster County in the US...