03.09.2013
- In recent years, chemical players have managed their businesses with little clear direction in the light of continuing volatile markets. They aimed to address the key strategic...
03.09.2013
- Dow Chemical has asked the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a $1.1 billion fine imposed by a district court in Kansas City, Kansas, in connection with an alleged...
03.09.2013
- French petrochemicals group Total is said to be close to announcing a shutdown of its loss-making steam cracker at Carling, in northeastern France. The cracker's viability is no...
03.09.2013
- BASF is stepping up its pressure on Germany to soften its hesitant stance on shale gas exploitation. In presenting Q2 results in July, CEO Kurt Bock said he hoped the new...
02.09.2013
- Dow Chemical has confirmed the locations for its planned new shale gas-fed polymer plants on the U.S. Gulf Coast, announced in March of this year and expected to be in full...
02.09.2013
- Belgium's Solvay and Saudi Arabia's Sadara Chemical Company have established a joint venture to produce hydrogen peroxide in Saudi Arabia. A new 300,000 t/y facility planned to...
30.08.2013
- BASF and Ineos are seeking to quell speculation over impending ownership changes at their 50:50 styrenic polymers joint venture Styrolution after the jv's CEO Roberto Gualdoni was...
29.08.2013
- Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta has filed a legal challenge to a decision by the EU Commission (EC) to restrict application of thiomethoxam, one of the active ingredients in...
29.08.2013
- Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is...
27.08.2013
- BASF will spend €2.5 million to expand capacity for waterborne automotive coatings at its Demarchi coatings site in Brazil's Sao Paulo state by 2014. The upgrade, which the German...