21.02.2017
- UK high-performance polymer producer Victrex has formed a joint venture with its long-standing US-based engineering partner Tri-Mack Plastics Manufacturing. The aim of the new...
21.02.2017
- Two investment companies owned by the Abu Dhabi government - International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) and Mubadala – have merged to form Mubadala Investment Company...
21.02.2017
- AstraZeneca has agreed to sell the commercial rights for its cancer treatment Zoladex in the US and Canada for $250 million upfront to private equity-backed TerSera Therapeutics –...
21.02.2017
- Arkema has announced plans to sell its half of oxo alcohols manufacturer Oxochimie, along with associated businesses, to joint venture partner Ineos. The company based at Lavera...
17.02.2017
- Europe's first multi-energy filling station in Berlin runs smoothly for more than two years. The higher-level process control system from Siemens monitors the networked plant and...
17.02.2017
- A while back, I saw a horrific Facebook video of a massive explosion at a processing facility in Mexico that killed 30 people and injured 46. Among the many comments on that post...
17.02.2017
- Few in the chemical industry would have predicted that Swiss-British petrochemicals group Ineos would diversify into car production, though its chairman, Jim Ratcliffe, is often...
17.02.2017
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant and US engineering contractor CB&I have been awarded a contract by Dongguan Grand Resource Science & Technology to jointly develop a new...
16.02.2017
- BASF’s troubled 300,000 t/y TDI plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany, will remain offline for a few more weeks before being partially restarted and operated at a reduced capacity, the...
15.02.2017
- German chemical producer AlzChem has decided to postpone its planned initial public offering (ipo), blaming political issues for causing persistent uncertainty for new investments...