30.01.2019
- US companies Entegris and Versum Materials are combining in a “merger of equals”, creating a $9 billion specialty materials company for the semiconductor and other high-tech...
18.01.2019
- BASF has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India’s Adani Group to study a €2 billion investment in a joint acrylics complex at Mundra port in Gujarat. The investment...
16.01.2019
- Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Pharmatech has partnered with the Performance Materials business unit of DKSH, a major ingredients and specialty chemicals distributor specializing in Asia...
16.01.2019
- Ineos has chosen Antwerp as the site for its proposed gas cracker and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant. The company announced last July that it would build a 1.25 million t/y...
07.01.2019
- Lotte Chemical Titan, a subsidiary of the South Korean Lotte group based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has broken ground for its planned 1 million t/y steam cracker and derivatives...
03.01.2019
- German engineering plastics producer Covestro has broken ground on a new production facility for polycarbonate film at Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Thailand. The company said...
03.01.2019
- Neste has taken a final investment decision to add capacity for renewable products at its plant in Singapore. The Finnish group said the go-ahead is based on growing global demand...
10.12.2018
- Just five weeks after presenting third-quarter financial results and forecasting a slight decline in EBIT before special items for full year 2018 and a little over two weeks after...
07.12.2018
- Evonik has announced plans to “significantly” expand sodium methylate capacity at its site in Mobile, Alabama, USA, to meet rising demand. Upon completion, the plant will be...
30.11.2018
- Kingchem Life Science, a US subsidiary of China’s Kingchem Liaoning Chemical, has spent more than $3 million to buy Apiscent Laboratories. Located in St. Francis, Wisconsin, USA...
