11.04.2017
- Oil and petrochemicals giant BP has revealed that it cut the annual salary of CEO Bob Dudley by 40% in 2016, from $19 million to $11.6 million, and reduced the maximum amount the...
10.04.2017
- Solvay Business Services (SBS) was officially founded in 2013 and I have managed its service organization since then. Its task and goal: to support Solvay’s growth and to support...
10.04.2017
- Sweden’s Hexpol has boosted its rubber compounding business after buying companies in the Czech Republic and USA. In the first transaction, Hexpol paid around €65 million to...
10.04.2017
- International Process Plants has entered an alliance with ChemChina’s Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery Co (BCMC) to supply new chlor-alkali plants that have been designed and...
10.04.2017
- Trouble appears to be brewing again at Ineos’ mammoth Grangemouth complex in Scotland, three and half years after a labor dispute brought the site to the brink of closure. This...
10.04.2017
- BASF has agreed to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP Minerals for an undisclosed sum. The deal’s closing is expected for the third quarter, following...
07.04.2017
- US chemicals and fluids companies Quaker Chemical and Houghton International are to merge, creating a world leader in the metalworking and primary metals industries. Under a...
07.04.2017
- Japan’s Astellas Pharma has agreed to buy privately held Belgian drug developer Ogeda in a transaction worth up to €800 million. The acquisition expands the Tokyo-headquartered...
07.04.2017
- Alongside already known or implemented moves rolling back decades of US environmental protection legislation and the 31% cut in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget...
07.04.2017
- US industrial gases producer Air Products has started up on a new oxygen and nitrogen plant in China’s southern Guangdong province, supporting a unnamed “leading global...
