20.10.2010
- Wacker has announced the inauguration of its new silicone-polymer plant at Zhangjiagang (China). The plant manufactures not only intermediates, but also downstream silicone...
18.10.2010
- A consortium of South Korea's Samsung Engineering and Germany's Linde has won an early construction deal for a Saudi-based acrylic acid complex expected to cost 4 billion riyals (...
18.10.2010
- Clariant announced that it will be relocating the headquarters of its Textile Chemicals business unit to Singapore. The company said the move, which is due to be completed by mid...
14.10.2010
- Wacker Chemie AG subsidiary Wacker Chemicals Korea is acquiring the Lucky Silicone brand from Henkel Technologies (Korea) Ltd. The two companies announced a purchase agreement...
14.10.2010
- As Sanofi-Aventis hunkers down for a long battle to buy Genzyme, the specter of a new proxy battle for control of the U.S. biotech will become an increasingly real threat...
Styron Europe GmbH - Styron has announced the launch of a new polycarbonate grade for polycarbonate sheet producers in Europe. XZ94261.00, which will be commercialized at a later date as CALIBRE 502-3...
14.10.2010
- The technology to produce so-called second-generation bioethanol has moved beyond the research phase and is ready to be used if policymakers back it with incentives, Danish...
12.10.2010
- Sunil Kumar, chair of the International Palladium Medal Award Committee of the Société de Chimie Industrielle has announced that the prestigious international award will be made to...
11.10.2010
- Sanofi-Aventis denied that it had dangled a higher price for Genzyme before going hostile with its $18.5 billion bid, deepening the animosity in their transatlantic takeover fight...
08.10.2010
- DSM Pharmaceutical Products' submission for the European Outsourcing Awards entitled "Achieving substantial carbon dioxide footprint reduction for the scale up of a drug...