17.09.2015
- Citing increased demand in Asia, Shell has started up a new 140,000 t/y high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) purification plant and a new 140,000 t/y ethoxylates unit at its site on...
17.09.2015
- Inovyn does not plan to restart its PVC plant at Schkopau, Germany, idled since the end of 2014. After failing to come to terms with Dow Chemical on supply of feedstock VCM, the...
17.09.2015
- As part of a customer-focused initiative to unite its diverse fine chemicals capabilities, Johnson Matthey, a US company best known internationally for catalyst manufacture, has...
16.09.2015
- German chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer Merck KGaA is streamlining its healthcare management team to accelerate growth. The company said the new organizational structure will...
16.09.2015
- In Thailand, Solvay has inaugurated what it says is Southeast Asia's largest sodium bicarbonate production facility. The €20 million plant built at the Belgian chemical group’s...
15.09.2015
- Effective Sept. 1, 2015, Ter Chemicals Distribution Group, based in Hamburg, Germany, transferred its Italian business with specialty chemicals into the recently founded company...
15.09.2015
- South Korea’s Hyosung Corporation has taken its second license for the Unipol polypropylene technology now owned by US chemical producer W.R. Grace. The process will be used in the...
15.09.2015
- In a transaction expected to close within the next few weeks, German chemical distribution giant Brenntag has agreed to acquire Istanbul, Turkey-based distributor Parkoteks for an...
15.09.2015
- A US court has begun hearing the first of several cases in what began as a class action suit against DuPont, in which plaintiffs claim the US chemical giant was to blame for their...
14.09.2015
- As a first step toward doubling its manufacturing and production capacity for biologics in the US, AstraZeneca has acquired a high-tech biologics bulk manufacturing facility in...