12.07.2016
- Parallel to efforts by the pharmaceutical industry, the UK’s Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is putting together a full-time team to prepare a detailed manifesto outlining...
11.07.2016
- US-based Huntsman, the world’s largest producer of TiO2, has announced it will close its South African plant during the fourth quarter of 2016. Located in Umbogintwini, the 25,000...
11.07.2016
- German industrial gases and engineering group Linde is expanding production for neon, a rare gas, at its site in La Porte, Texas, USA. The new facility, part of a $250 million...
08.07.2016
- Industrial gases giant Air Liquide has unveiled its transformation strategy for the next four years. Chairman and CEO Benoît Potier revealed the details of the company’s NEOS 2016...
08.07.2016
- In what it said is a vote of confidence for investment in the UK following the Brexit vote, Ineos Oxide has announced plans to spend a “multi-million pound” sum to raise production...
07.07.2016
- ANGUS Chemical, a US manufacturer of nitroalkanes and derivatives, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Univar with effect from Jul 1. Univar will distribute...
07.07.2016
- British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has formed a strategic partnership with Denmark’s LEO Pharma for skin disease treatments. Under the deal, LEO gains a global license to...
07.07.2016
- Chemical production in the 28 EU member states shrank by 0.7% year-on-year on average in the first four months of 2016 and thus remained 5.9% below the pre-crisis 2008 level, the...
06.07.2016
- German consumer chemicals producer Henkel has become the second largest company in North America’s laundry care market with the purchase of Sun Products for around €3.2 billion...
06.07.2016
- BASF has closed the planned sale of its global polyolefin catalyst business to W. R. Grace, following all approvals. Included in the transaction are technologies, patents...