05.03.2010
- Germany's Linde reported operating profit dropped 6.7% to €2.385 billion in 2009 in line with analysts' expectations, while the maker of industrial gases proposed a dividend...
05.03.2010
- Global pharmaceutical and chemical company Merck KGaA headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, will acquire Millipore Corporation, a leading Life Science company based in Billerica, U...
03.03.2010
- Lanxess has completed the first phase of construction of its new site in Jhagadia, Gujarat state, India. The production of the rubber chemicals plant was started up, as planned...
02.03.2010
- The Graduate has one of the most memorable lines in movie history. "There's a great future in plastics," the protagonist Ben is advised, and it's a piece of advice that turned out...
02.03.2010
- France's GDF Suez has signed a deal with Russian gas monopoly Gazprom to take a 9% stake in the yet-to-be-built Nord Stream gas pipeline, the companies said in a joint statement on...
02.03.2010
- Indian energy major Reliance Industries is likely to turn its attention to other acquisition opportunities if its bid for LyondellBasell, valuing the bankrupt firm at $14.5 billion...
01.03.2010
- The EuroBioRef project (European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing) coordinated by CNRS, France, was launched on March 1 and will run for...
26.02.2010
- Lyondellbasell said it plans to to cease the production of polypropylene (PP) at its plant in Terni, Italy. The company said it has started the employee consultation process...
23.02.2010
- Tsurumi Pumps is taking legal action to halt the counterfeiting of its products after a Chinese company was caught supplying replica Tsurumi pumps into Europe. Tsurumi successfully...
Asynt Ltd. - The new DrySyn Parallel Synthesizer allows the chemist to heat and stir up to 12 small-scale reactions in parallel using any standard hotplate stirrer. At around £200 this provides...
