03.01.2018
- AkzoNobel has appointed Renier Vree as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of its Specialty Chemicals business, effective Mar. 1, 2018. Vree has spent the last eight years at Arcadis...
03.01.2018
- UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has expanded its stake in its Saudi subsidiary Glaxo Saudi Arabia Limited (GSAL) by 26% to 75%. With an investment of more than $243 million, the...
03.01.2018
- After two weeks of protest in Israel, generics giant Teva has temporarily taken back about a third of the planned job cuts at its plant in Jerusalem. Original plans called for 340...
03.01.2018
- The Forties Pipeline that carries an estimated 40-45% of liquids output from the UK’s North Sea oilfields to the mainland is expected to return to normal flow rates of some 450,000...
02.01.2018
- Finnish paints group Tikkurila is selling its loss-making operations in the Balkans. The entire share capital of its subsidiaries in Serbia and Macedonia is being transferred to...
02.01.2018
- Metgas Processing Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Italian engineering group Maire Tecnimont, has executed a framework agreement with Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical to...
02.01.2018
- Led by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, several non-profit organizations are suing the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) for omissions on emissions – more...
22.12.2017
- Three Indonesian firms – Pertamina, Chandra Asri and Pupuk Indonesia – have signed an agreement in principle with local mining group Bukit Asam to look at the feasibility of...
22.12.2017
- China has announced that the first phase of its long-awaited nationwide carbon emission trading scheme (ETS), expected to be the largest of its type worldwide, will focus initially...
21.12.2017
- BASF is reshuffling its top management well ahead of its usual succession timetable, with Kurt Bock to relinquish his position as chairman of the managing board, or CEO – three...
