25.10.2018
- In a call to action last from Oct.1-21, members of the British trade union Unite voted overwhelmingly to restore the union’s right to conduct collective bargaining at the Ineos...
24.10.2018
- US contractor Jacobs Engineering has agreed to sell its Energy, Chemicals and Resources (ECR) division to Australia’s WorleyParsons for $3.3 billion, made up of $2.6 billion in...
24.10.2018
- US specialty polymers producer PolyOne has commissioned a new plant for thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) at its complex in Pune, India. The new facility is complemented by a...
24.10.2018
- A judge in the US state of California has upheld a jury's ruling that Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused a school groundskeeper's cancer, while at the same time...
23.10.2018
- With approval received from the US Federal Trade Commission on Oct. 22 – two days before the deal would have been Dead on Arrival – nothing now stands in the way of a successful...
23.10.2018
- The four evolutionary stages of manufacturing have brought us to Pharma 4.0. The first stage comprised the implementation of steam power to mechanization. The second involved mass...
23.10.2018
- US chemical producer Celanese is undertaking a 20,000 t/y capacity increase for its acetal polymer polyoxymethylene (POM) at the Industriepark Höchst chemical park near Frankfurt...
23.10.2018
- Major global fertilizer producer EuroChem has boosted its distribution network in the US with the acquisition of Trammo’s dry and liquid fertilizer transport and storage assets...
23.10.2018
- Poland’s PKN Orlen, which earlier this month took full control of Czech refiner and petrochemicals producer Unipetrol, has announced plans to invest around 1 billion zloty ($268...
22.10.2018
- Clean technology company Anellotech has begun planning scale-up design and engineering for a commercial-scale plant based on its Bio-TCat process, which produces chemicals and...
