28.01.2016
- US industrial gases giant Praxair has signed a 15-year contract to supply oxygen and nitrogen to Total in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. Total is spending €1 billion to upgrade its...
25.01.2016
- US composites producer Hexcel has announced plans to build a new €20 million production facility in Morocco to support growing demand for engineered core materials. The new...
19.01.2016
- French industrial gases producer Air Liquide will build and operate a new carbon dioxide plant together with a cogeneration facility in Colombia following a contract with major...
15.01.2016
- Bayer has opened a new production site for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs at the Majinpu bioengineering and pharmaceutical industry park in Yunnan, China. Its second state-of-the-art...
11.12.2015
- Brenntag has agreed to purchase South African specialty distributor Plastichem for an undisclosed sum. The deal gives Brenntag a key position in the polymers industries in South...
09.12.2015
- Sadara, claimed to be the world’s largest chemical complex ever built in a single phase, has started up its first production unit, an LLDPE plant using Dow Chemical’s technology...
07.12.2015
- Just weeks after its spin-off from Bayer, German engineering plastics producer Covestro has announced its first streamlining measure, saying it plans to close its 170,000 t/y MDI...
24.11.2015
- Confirming rumors of the past weekend, US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has said it will buy drugmaker Allergan for $160 million and move its headquarters to Ireland. The ever faster...
20.11.2015
- A fire at a Lubrizol plant in Leetsdale Industrial Park near Pittsburgh, Pennylvania, in the US on Nov. 17 injured one worker and prompted a hazmat response by local firefighters...
19.11.2015
- 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) is an important chemical intermediate product and raw material for plastics, solvents and synthetic fibers. The alcohol’s production capacities have been...
