28.03.2018
- Major US engineering and construction group Fluor has been awarded a contract by MEGlobal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equate Petrochemical, to build its new MEG manufacturing...
28.03.2018
- Solvay Specialty Polymers has agreed to sell its hydrofluoric acid plant at Porto Marghera, Italy, to Alkeemia, part of the Fluorsid Group. Solvay uses the hydrofluoric acid as a...
28.03.2018
- Nova Chemicals and Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals (SPMT), part of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), have entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...
28.03.2018
- In a move that may explain why GlaxoSmithKline last week turned thumbs down on bidding for Pfizer’s consumer drugs business, the UK’s largest drugmaker has announced plans to buy...
27.03.2018
- AkzoNobel has sold its Specialty Chemicals business to private equity investor Carlyle in partnership with GIC, the largest of Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds, for an enterprise...
26.03.2018
- TiGenix and Takeda’s Alofisel has won clearance from the European Commission, making it the first allogeneic stem cell therapy to be approved for use in Europe. Alofisel...
26.03.2018
- As part of an overall plan to divest its global polycarbonate sheet business, German engineering plastics producer Covestro has announced it will sell the US business, based in...
26.03.2018
- Borealis has signed an agreement with United Chemical Company (UCC) to develop an ethylene/PE complex in Kazakhstan. The project will comprise an ethane cracker and two PE plants...
25.03.2018
- The government of Belgium’s Brussels region has lodged a complaint against the European Commission in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its decision late last year to...
25.03.2018
- ExxonMobil has outlined an aggressive growth strategy to more than double earnings and cash from operations by 2025. The program includes steps to increase earnings to $31 billion...
