13.01.2011
- DSM Pharmaceutical Products and Codexis have signed an enzyme supply agreement, the companies announced. The agreement grants DSM rights to use Codexis' custom biocatalysts and...
12.01.2011
- Genzyme, the subject of an $18.5 billion hostile takeover bid from Sanofi-Aventis SA, posted preliminary Q4 earnings that fell short of Wall Street forecasts and cut its earnings...
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...
