16.05.2017
- Even though it is in the throes of finalizing a merger with DuPont, Dow Chemical has announced investments totalling $4 billion over the next five years. Plans include an expansion...
16.05.2017
- Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU), a public-private partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), is backing a new project in which French...
16.05.2017
- Plans for a joint venture between German gases and engineering group Linde and Russian power plant equipment manufacturer PJSC Power Machines have cleared the European Commission...
15.05.2017
- Swiss pharma company Novartis has exercised an option that gives it global development and commercialization rights to a drug being developed by US biotech Conatus Pharmaceuticals...
15.05.2017
- GCP Applied Technologies, a US provider of specialty chemicals and materials to the building and construction industries, has agreed to buy the UK’s Stirling Lloyd for $94 million...
15.05.2017
- Following local media reports in March, ExxonMobil has confirmed it has agreed to buy the Singapore aromatics plant of Jurong Aromatics Corp. (JAC). Financial terms of the...
12.05.2017
- Chemspec Europe 2017 is the International Exhibition for Fine and Speciality Chemicals. From 31 May – 1 June 2017, about 390 exhibitors from 29 countries will meet at the Munich...
12.05.2017
- Chinese state enterprises ChemChina and Sinochem are planning to merge next year, creating the world’s largest chemicals group, business newspaper Financial Times (FT) has reported...
12.05.2017
- US engineering contractor CB&I has won a contract from Formosa Chemicals and Fibre for the license and engineering design of a cumene and phenol expansion in Ningbo, China. CB&I...
12.05.2017
- ChemChina’s proposed takeover of agrochemicals group Syngenta is on the road to conclusion, with 82.2% of the Swiss company’s common shares and all outstanding American Depositary...
