17.01.2018
- UK specialty chemicals company Croda has acquired Nautilus Biosciences Canada, a marine biotechnology company based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Financial terms...
17.01.2018
- After making several acquisitions in both the onshore and offshore gas sector over the past two years, Ineos has reorganized and split the operations into six new oil and gas...
15.01.2018
- US infrastructure group Arcanum is planning to add additional butene-1 plants to its flagship Raven facility, which is under construction in Baytown, Texas. Raven is being...
15.01.2018
- AkzoNobel is negotiating with three or four potential buyers of its Specialty Chemicals division, according to media reports. Last month, shareholders approved the proposed...
15.01.2018
- Russian petrochemicals giant Sibur is expanding PTA capacity at the site of its PET subsidiary Polief in Blagoveschensk. The project, which is aimed at improving the site’s...
15.01.2018
- The European Parliament’s Environment, Food and Public Health committee (ENVI) by a vote of 42 to 17 (with one abstention) has rejected a proposal for a full ban on the use of...
15.01.2018
- Switzerland’s stock exchange SIX is investigating specialty chemicals producer Clariant on grounds it may have breached the market’s ad hoc disclosure requirements when launching...
12.01.2018
- German chemical producer Evonik has signed a toll manufacturing agreement with China’s Fufeng Group that will see Fufeng produce Evonik’s L-threonine amino acid in China, using the...
12.01.2018
- Turkish company Kordsa, a tire cord specialist, broke ground last month on its polyester expansion project in Izmit, Turkey. The additional 7,000 t/y of polyester yarn production...
12.01.2018
- A management reshuffle at the UK’s largest drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline has caught the market’s attention, especially as it was carried through by closely watched CEO Emma Walmsley...
