24.07.2015
- German chemical producers are sticking by forecasts of 1.5% production growth in 2015. Thanks in particular to the euro’s weakness, sales are expected to rise by 0.5% to €191.8...
23.07.2015
- Azelis has been appointed exclusive European distributor for WeylChem Wiesbaden’s TAED (peroxide bleach activators) and specialty surfactants range sold to the Homecare and...
23.07.2015
- BASF plans to combine all of its pigments activities into a global business unit (GBU) as of January 2016 before carving out the entire business into separate legal entities in the...
22.07.2015
- BASF Petronas Chemicals, the joint venture of BASF and Malaysian petrochemicals giant Petronas, plans to build a new world-scale production plant for highly reactive polyisobutene...
21.07.2015
- US Agricultural giant Cargill, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has made an equity investment in California-based biotech firm Genomatica. As part of the deal, Cargill has...
20.07.2015
- BASF has commissioned a new production plant for form release agents at its Staßfurt, Germany, site after completing successful trial operations in July. The new facility produces...
20.07.2015
- New Tianlong Industry Co. Ltd. (NTL) plans to license technology from DuPont for use in what will be the People’s Republic’s largest cellulosic ethanol manufacturing plant, located...
17.07.2015
- Ineos is planning to move some of its corporate functions back to the UK from its current headquarters in Switzerland, according to unconfirmed press reports. In an interview with...
15.07.2015
- Germany’s antitrust authority Bundeskartellamt has approved BASF’s plans to sell its custom synthesis business, part of the Nutrition & Health division, and parts of its current...
15.07.2015
- With the help of four low-pressure fans, Ineos has “raised the roof” on the new ethane tank it is installing at its mammoth petrochemical complex at Grangemouth, Scotland – a first...