03.03.2020
- Versalis has taken a 40% stake in Finproject, an Italian manufacturer of expandable PVC compounds and molds, marking the Eni subsidiary’s entry into the high-performance formulated...
26.02.2020
- After almost a decade of discussion, the European Commission has signed sealed and delivered its decision to reclassify the inhalable powder form of titanium dioxide TiO2) as a...
19.02.2020
- Italian plastics producer Versalis, Milan-based subsidiary of the Eni chemicals and energy group, has signed an agreement with Italian engineering firm Servizi di Ricerche e...
17.02.2020
- US polyamide giant Ascend Performance Materials, which lays claim to being the world’s largest fully integrated producer of PA 6.6 resin, is acquiring Poliblend and Esseti Plast GD...
14.02.2020
- Ineos has entered into a long-term agreement with Finland’s UPM BioVerno for the supply of renewable feedstock to make new bio-attributed polymers in Cologne, Germany. The raw...
13.02.2020
- Linde has announced the signing of three new contracts, which it said had been made possible by leveraging both its and Praxair technologies. The two industrial gas giants closed...
03.02.2020
- Following all approvals and the transfer of its European polyamide business to Domo, Solvay has completed the sale of its non-European PA activities to BASF for €1.3 billion on a...
21.01.2020
- China is following the lead of developed countries and economic blocs with plans to put curbs on production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, which are becoming a...
08.01.2020
- EU member states are now said close to agreeing on implementing a general tax on non-recyclable plastic waste as one means of filling the €15 billion gap that will be left in the...
10.12.2019
- In a statement issued on the publication of the European Commission’s new Ecodesign requirements for electronic displays, the International Bromine Council (BSEF) called for the...
