20.02.2019
- Solvay has filed a lawsuit in a Beijing court against Chinese company Beijing Tiangang Auxiliary Co. for infringing its patent on Cyasorb THT light stabilizer. The Belgian...
20.02.2019
- Finnish chemical company Kemira has announced it will spend around €60 million over the next two years to “significantly” increase production of high molecular weight emulsion...
20.02.2019
- As the Mar. 29 date for the UK to quit the EU approaches, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said companies have been “hung out to dry” over the consequences of a no deal...
19.02.2019
- Two months behind schedule, South African petrochemicals producer Sasol has started up the first of seven production units planned for its delayed complex at Lake Charles...
19.02.2019
- German plastics additives manufacturer Baerlocher is spending $30 million to double production capacity at its Indian subsidiary by 2021. The company, which regards itself as India...
19.02.2019
- As part of a newly agreed joint venture, Italian energy group Eni and Saudi petrochemicals giant SABIC will collaborate on developing a new technology to convert natural gas into...
18.02.2019
- Swiss engineering and technology group Casale has agreed to build a 660 t/d nitric acid plant for Borsodchem in Hungary. The plant at Kazincbarcika will produce 68% strength acid...
18.02.2019
- Japanese companies Mitsui & Co. and Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha (ISK) have signed a binding agreement to jointly acquire a 25% stake in Brazilian agrochemical company, Ouro Fino Quimica...
18.02.2019
- Within a week, US biotech Celgene, which is in the process of being acquired by Bristol-Myers-Squibb (BMS), dodged a challenge to its patent for the blockbuster multiple myeloma...
15.02.2019
- Afyren, a young French biochemicals company, is pressing ahead with plans for industrial scale production of bio-based organic acids from recovered non-food biomass through a...
