23.05.2012
- German specialty chemicals company Lanxess has started up on schedule a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) plant in Nantong, China, as part of its 50:50 joint venture with Taiwan's...
22.05.2012
- Germany's Wintershall , the oil and gas arm of chemicals group BASF, said on Monday it was unperturbed by the enforced nationalisation of Argentine oil company YPF, having just...
22.05.2012
- China's strong appetite for rubber could help the market stave off pressure from a worsening debt crisis in Europe that threatens commodities demand while Thailand's move to prop...
20.05.2012
- A group of U.S. seed, chemical and equipment companies will invest at least $150 million over the next few years into African agricultural projects and products, the companies said...
18.05.2012
- International drugmakers are working with European authorities on emergency plans to keep medicines flowing into Greece if the country crashes out of the euro. Discussions have...
18.05.2012
- A European Union decision to block Russia's Gazprom from taking a stake in the Central European Gas Hub was a mistake because it hurt efforts to boost liquidity, the Vienna-based...
16.05.2012
- Britain's drug watchdog has reversed a controversial decision not to fund a new prostate cancer pill that was developed in the country after maker Johnson & Johnson agreed a new...
14.05.2012
- Iraq plans to build on its nascent gas sector to power a new petrochemicals industry, looking to foreign firms to invest $35-50 billion from 2017-2023, a senior official told...
14.05.2012
- Australia, the world's fourth-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), could have enough shale gas resources to double its gas resource base and expand its growing export...
14.05.2012
- German chemicals major BASF is realigning its research and is focusing even more strongly on the market and the global customer industries. Alongside the further development of the...
