15.08.2019
- LyondellBasell has announced that Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymeres (STEP), a joint venture between Algerian energy company Sonatrach and French oil, gas and chemicals group...
15.08.2019
- Following up plans hinted at last spring by The Times of India, Saudi Aramco has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire a 20% stake in the Oil-to-Chemicals division...
14.08.2019
- Schirm USA, a subsidiary of Schirm in Germany, has appointed Chad Kern (48) as chief executive officer (CEO), effective Aug. 1, 2019. He succeeds Gus Jones, who will retire in...
14.08.2019
- German specialty plating chemicals and equipment specialist Atotech has acquired J-KEM International, based in Rosersberg, Sweden. Financial terms of the deal that closed at the...
14.08.2019
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess is selling its chrome chemicals business to Chinese leather chemicals company Brother Enterprises for an undisclosed sum. The agreement...
14.08.2019
- Dublin, Ireland-based Jazz Pharmaceuticals has acquired US biotech Cavion for a potential total sum of $312.5 million. The transaction, through which Cavion has merged with a Jazz...
13.08.2019
- KBR has acquired isomerization technologies from RRT Global, enabling the US engineering and construction company to offer expanded octane and clean fuel processes. RRT Global is a...
13.08.2019
- Mezzan Holding, one of the Arabian Gulf’s largest manufacturers and distributors of food, beverage, FMCG and healthcare products, has bought a 67% stake in Kuwait Saudi...
Olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos is switching auditors after a breakdown in communication between long-term partner PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which has audited the...
12.08.2019
- As the number of lawsuits from people claiming that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused their cancer mount – to currently more than 18,000 –signals increasingly point to an out-of...
