09.01.2014
- Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras refined an average 2.03 million barrels a day of crude in the first 11 months of 2013, an amount equivalent to about 97% of its capacity...
09.01.2014
- Federal regulators are unlikely to step up enforcement of potential water contamination cases linked to natural gas drilling - despite new concerns about water safety - given a...
09.01.2014
- U.S. plastics compounder and distributor A. Schulman has paid $15.1 million to acquire Prime Colorants, a manufacturer of custom colors and additive concentrates in Franklin...
08.01.2014
- China's quality watchdog has turned away more corn cargoes from the United States due to the discovery of a genetically-modified strain not approved by Beijing and further...
20.12.2013
- As expected, the Lyon, France, commercial court overseeing the Kem One bankruptcy has given the nod to the sole remaining bidder for the PVC producer. In a volte-face against the...
20.12.2013
- Germany's CABB and Jining Gold Power from Shandong province agreed to establish a joint venture for the production and marketing of high quality monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in...
19.12.2013
- Just as workers at Grangemouth thought the worst was over, the mammoth petrochemical complex on Scotland's river Forth has been dealt another low blow. Days before Christmas, Dow...
17.12.2013
- Phase Out - Mercury contamination continues to be an environmental and public health concern. The World Health Organization considers mercury as one of the top 10 chemicals posing...
17.12.2013
- Syngenta announced today that it has signed an agreement to sell its Dulcinea Farms business ("Dulcinea") to Pacific Trellis Fruit LLC ("Pacific Trellis"), a US-based international...
16.12.2013
- Little-Known Step - More than six years after the REACH regulation went into force, perhaps the least-known part of the regulation is the Board of Appeal (BoA) of the European...
