23.09.2018
- Swiss polymer companies Rehau Verwaltungszentrale and MB Barter & Trading have agreed a merger of equals, combining their operations in a new, independent company with sales of $2...
19.09.2018
- Recently, the pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) industry has been extremely active in M&A, as is the pharma and generics industry itself...
30.08.2018
- With the rapid growth of the Industrial Internet of Things and recent advances in Industry 4.0 technologies like cloud computing, machine learning and remote sensing, there’s been...
30.08.2018
- Canada’s Nova Chemicals in spending nearly $2 million on a three-year program to prevent plastic waste from reaching the world’s oceans. The move is in support of Project STOP, a...
21.08.2018
- Finnish oil group Neste, which in the meantime bills itself as world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, has kicked off a development project to explore the potential of using...
10.08.2018
- PET market leader Indorama Ventures is acquiring French recycler Sorepla for an undisclosed sum. The company with 58 employees is one of the largest recyclers in Europe, operating...
19.07.2018
- Synthos is planning to build a new plant for the production of extruded polystyrene (XPS) at its site in Oswiecim, Poland. Preparations are already underway to start work and...
09.07.2018
- Two French companies and two national industry associations have joined forces to launch a polystyrene recycling system as part of France’s contribution to the EU’s Circular...
21.06.2018
- The Chemical Industry is going through a period of significant change, driven by many factors: access to feedstock, falling oil price and consequently falling prices for...
14.06.2018
- BASF Venture Capital, the subsidiary of the Ludwigshafen chemical giant that takes stakes in start-ups, is investing an undisclosed sum in LanzaTech, a US biotech firm...