24.03.2011
- Japan's aluminum industry may see only relatively modest production disruptions from power outages in eastern Japan after this month's devastating earthquake, since much of its...
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...
