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...
06.04.2017
- US engineering contractor CB&I has signed a strategic alliance with Jinzhou Port Co. (Jingang) to become the master licensor for an integrated refining and petrochemicals project...
06.04.2017
- A joint venture between BP and DuPont has acquired US biofuels company Nesika Energy for an undisclosed sum. The deal includes Nesika’s ethanol facility in Scandia, Kansas, USA...
06.04.2017
- Wolfgang Reitzle, former CEO and current supervisory board chairman of German gases and engineering group, has told German news media he is prepared to use his double vote to seal...
