24.09.2014
- French chemical producer Arkema has offered to acquire German adhesives manufacturer Bostik from its former parent company, oil and petrochemicals major Total. Arkema did not say...
23.09.2014
- In the biggest acquisition in the history of the family-owned company, Darmstadt Germany-based chemicals, pharmaceuticals and laboratory products manufacturer Merck KGaA is opening...
22.09.2014
- Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem has joined an existing collaboration of bio-based farnesene producer Amrys and tire manufacturer Michelin to develop and commercialise...
18.09.2014
- US-based Air Products, which claims to be the global leader in LNG technology and equipment, has been tapped to supply two sets of its proprietary technology, equipment and process...
18.09.2014
- Swiss speciality chemicals producer Clariant has doubled capacity for pigments and pigment preparations at its production site in Roha, India. The company said the capacity...
17.09.2014
- Marco Antonio Quirino has been named President of Univar Latin America, effective September 1. The announcement was made by David Flitman, Chief Operating Officer and President of...
16.09.2014
- The European Commission has cleared Huntsman's proposed acquisition of a number of Rockwood's chemical businesses in exchange for Huntsman's promise to divest its TR52 portfolio...
15.09.2014
- Saudi Arabian petrochemical giant SABIC has signed a five-year strategic R&D partnership agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the leading public research and...
12.09.2014
- Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has announced plans to add a 3,500 t/y production train to its Desmopan thermoplastic elastomers (TPU) plant at Cuddalore in India'sTamil Nadu state...
11.09.2014
- Almac, the contract development and manufacturing organization based at Craigavon, UK, has announced its "high level" participation in a synthetic biology project to develop novel...