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...
16.12.2010
- BP said on Wednesday it was examining the possible sale of its Canadian natural-gas liquids business as it seeks to raise up to $30 billion to pay for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill...
14.12.2010
- Germany's reputation for high-tech products and engineering know-how is known the world over. The country, nestled in the heart of Western Europe, is now using its innovative...
10.12.2010
- Düsseldorf was buzzing at the end of October with hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world who came to Germany for the world's largest trade show for plastics and...
