17.01.2019
- Finnish chemicals group Kemira has signed an agreement to form a joint venture with Yongsan Chemicals, a privately owned chemicals company in South Korea. Kemira will make a multi...
17.01.2019
- Following the UK Parliament’s rejection of prime minister Theresa May’s plan for an orderly Brexit, European business still lacks clarity about the state of play after Mar. 29...
17.01.2019
- As it prepares to weed 12,000 jobs out of its pre-Monsanto organization by 2021, Bayer has begun consolidating corporate functions in the US. In a first step, the US subsidiary of...
16.01.2019
- Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Pharmatech has partnered with the Performance Materials business unit of DKSH, a major ingredients and specialty chemicals distributor specializing in Asia...
16.01.2019
- Saudi Aramco may tap the bond market for about $10 billion to help fund the acquisition of compatriot petrochemicals producer SABIC, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih told...
16.01.2019
- Ineos has chosen Antwerp as the site for its proposed gas cracker and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant. The company announced last July that it would build a 1.25 million t/y...
15.01.2019
- Lotte BP Chemicals, a joint venture between South Korea’s Lotte and UK energy and chemicals group BP, will expand capacity for acetic acid at Ulsan, South Korea. Investment costs...
15.01.2019
- Adama’s expansion in China continues to gather pace with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to potentially buy key parts of Jiangsu Huifeng Bio Agriculture’s crop...
15.01.2019
- Leveraging part of the €1.4 billion proceeds from the sale of its 50% stake in synthetic rubber producer Arlanxeo to Saudi Aramco, German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess has...
14.01.2019
- BASF has cemented its plans for a second integrated Chinese production hub, at Guangdong in the southwest, complementing the existing site opened at at Nanjing in the northeast two...
