04.03.2019
- Italian contractor Tecnimont has won another contract for Borouge in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This time, Tecnimont will provide front end engineering and design (FEED)...
04.03.2019
- Azelis has strengthened its presence in the Indian food & health market with the purchase of MK Ingredients & Specialties and its subsidiary SSD Industries. Financial terms were...
04.03.2019
- At the beginning of March, Messer Industries, new joint venture of Germany-based industrial gases producer Messer and private equity group CVC Capital Partners, completed the...
01.03.2019
- ACG Group has expanded its footprint in Brazil with the launch of a new capsules manufacturing plant in Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, west of Rio de Janeiro. With approximately 350...
01.03.2019
- According to the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES, Q4-2018) – experts’ assessments of both the current economic situation and their economic expectations deteriorated somewhat...
01.03.2019
- Ineos has selected its Hull, Saltend, UK, site as the location for its long planned 300,000 t/y vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant, which will cost £150 million and form part of a...
01.03.2019
- Activist investor Starboard Value, which very recently bought a 1 million share in Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and nominated five directors to the board, has now made public its...
01.03.2019
- Nouryon – the former AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals – has licensed its carbon disulfide (CS2) manufacturing technology to an unnamed “leading viscose fibers manufacturer” in...
28.02.2019
- DSM and partner Roquette will dissolve their biosuccinic acid joint venture Reverdia with effect from Apr.1, 2019. All rights and obligations related to Reverdia’s Biosuccinium...
28.02.2019
- Swiss drugs giant Roche has agreed to pay $4.3 billion for Spark Therapeutics, marking the latest purchase of a biotech company by big pharma. The deal gives Roche the first US...
