23.03.2011
- Germany's Wintershall, a unit of BASF, said on Monday it would join Russia's South Stream gas pipeline project to pump gas under the Black Sea to Europe. BASF Chief Executive...
AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals - A radical rethink of the chlorine supply chain - AkzoNobel has thought long and hard about how to secure the supply of chlorine to customers. Instead of high profile transports, we...
21.03.2011
- Royal Dutch Shell has shut its one-year old 800,000 ton-per-year (tpy) ethylene cracker in Singapore following operational issues, and has declared force majeure on some chemical...
17.03.2011
- Salt tends to cake when transported or stored without special additives. So back in the 1950s we developed ferrocyanide (also called YPS), a powerful anti-caking agent for salt...
17.03.2011
- Australia's competition watchdog cleared Cargill's A$1.24 billion acquisition of the commodity management business Agrium acquired with its takeover of Australia's AWB. "The ACCC...
17.03.2011
- After a year in which Johnson & Johnson's product quality control was deemed such a shambles that the U.S. government will oversee some plants, the board had praise for Chief...
16.03.2011
- Markets are constantly on the move. But change is not something to fear. On the contrary, it brings new opportunities. With more than a century of experience as the largest chorine...
16.03.2011
- Trusted Advisers - Despite strong growth prospects in the industry, chemical supply chain managers are increasingly cautious in the face of continued uncertainty and relentless...
16.03.2011
- Unpredictability - The chemical supply chain management is facing an increasing volatility, both on the market and supplier side. This is caused by the effects of global networks...
16.03.2011
- Raising The Bar - Formulators of latex architectural paints and coatings have made tremendous progress in recent years and raised the bar with new product introductions. These new...