21.03.2017
- Belgian chemicals company Solvay has agreed to buy all the renewable energy certificates (RECs) from the largest solar farm to be built in South Carolina, USA, for the next 15...
21.03.2017
- Oilfield chemicals major Wood Group, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, has made a £2.2 billion all-share offer to acquire US rival Amec Foster Wheeler. The bid represents a 15% premium...
09.03.2017
- Sven Schneider has been named to the managing board of German industrial gases and engineering group Linde with the function of chief financial officer. The 50-year-old German has...
23.02.2017
- DSM has acquired the technology and other assets of Suzhou SunShine New Materials Technology, a Chinese manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) backsheets. The deal follows a...
17.02.2017
- Europe's first multi-energy filling station in Berlin runs smoothly for more than two years. The higher-level process control system from Siemens monitors the networked plant and...
09.02.2017
- In one of its last press releases before being sidelined by the administration of new President Donald Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported a cumulative 56%...
20.01.2017
- In November 2016 Global Bioenergies (GBE) completed the construction of the only demo plant in the world that is dedicated to the direct fermentation of gaseous hydrocarbons. It is...
20.01.2017
- Among the “firsts” launched at the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, were – unusually – two projects in which the global chemicals-related industry got its day in...
16.01.2017
- Japanese companies Toray Industries and Mitsui Sugar are forming a joint venture to demonstrate the technological feasibility of manufacturing cellulosic sugar from the surplus...
16.01.2017
- Scotland’s environmental protection agency, SEPA, has issued fines to 383 industrial companies or sites – including Ineos, BP and Syngenta at Grangemouth – for their “poor” or...
