11.01.2011
- PetroChina announced a framework deal on Monday to partner with private British firm INEOS to form refining joint ventures at the Lavera refinery in France and Grangemouth in...
10.01.2011
- Süd-Chemie and Yara International have concluded a five-year framework agreement on catalysts for fertilizer production. The companies announced that the long-term supply agreement...
10.01.2011
- The European Commission plans a significant cut in the punitive tariffs it imposed last year on Chinese-made fiberglass used in the clean technology sector, EU diplomats and people...
07.01.2011
- OMV has agreed to buy U.S.-based Pioneer Natural Resources' Tunisian units for $866 million as the Austrian energy group bulks up North African operations that have become a core...
06.01.2011
- A huge fire broke out at an industrial park near Rotterdam on Wednesday, setting off chemical explosions, releasing toxic smoke and disrupting shipping between the country's second...
03.01.2011
- Knut Schwalenberg has been appointed Managing Director of Akzo Nobel Industrial Chemicals. Schwalenberg succeeds Werner Fuhrmann, who has been appointed to Akzo Nobel's new...
- LogiChem 2011 will be the event's 10th anniversary and an opportunity for the most senior supply chain directors from the European chemicals community to come together once again...
23.12.2010
- Airgas has rejected yet another takeover offer from rival industrial gas producer Air Products, saying a sweetened $5.9 billion bid is just not enough. Air Products stood firm...
22.12.2010
- Royal Dutch Shell and Qatar Petroleum will jointly study building a major petrochemicals plant in the Ras Laffan industrial city in Qatar, Shell said on Tuesday. "The scope under...
17.12.2010
- Four people connected to an "expert network" firm were arrested and charged in a widening probe of insider trading at hedge funds on Thursday.A list of some of the people involved...