03.08.2017
- Israeli potassium nitrate and phosphates producer Haifa Chemicals is shutting down its plants and dismissing all of its 800 workers. The announcement on Aug. 2 came after the...
03.08.2017
- Indian enzyme manufacturer Advanced Enzyme Technologies has announced it will acquire all of German industrial biotech company Evoxx Technologies for €7.65 million in a bid to...
03.08.2017
- US President Donald Trump has signed the expanded Russian sanctions bill passed by both houses of Congress, while calling it “seriously flawed.” The new sanctions, which will make...
02.08.2017
- US technology and chemical company W.R. Grace has granted a license for its Unipol PP process technology to Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC), a 50:50 joint venture between...
02.08.2017
- A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, at the end of July handed Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), another setback in his...
02.08.2017
- Following up on comments by BASF chief Kurt Bock last week, questioning the motivation for extended US sanctions against Russia and the participation of Western companies in...
02.08.2017
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has hired US investment bank Goldman Sachs as an additional advisor to fend off a campaign by activist investor White Tale to stop the...
01.08.2017
- Starting August 1st a new chemical service company within the WeylChem Group of Companies was formed. With its competencies in Analytics, Contract Research and Piloting as well as...
01.08.2017
- Just weeks after announcing a $2 billion expansion program for polyolefins in Europe, Ineos has revealed it is also planning to build a world-scale cumene plant in Germany. An...
01.08.2017
- German pharmaceuticals, chemicals and life sciences group Merck has opened a new application laboratory for its Performance Materials business sector in Shanghai, China. The...
