20.02.2017
- US chemical and catalysts producer W.R. Grace has announced that it was contracted in the fourth quarter of 2016 to license its Unipol PP gas-phase process technology to China’s...
20.02.2017
- Following its $1.4 billion offer last month to buy Yingde Gases Group, Air Products has taken the unusual step of publicizing a letter it has written disputing several public...
20.02.2017
- By a vote of 379 to 263 with 57 abstentions, the plenary session of the European Parliament on Feb. 15 adopted draft legislation for revising the Emission Trading Directive (ETS)...
17.02.2017
- Europe's first multi-energy filling station in Berlin runs smoothly for more than two years. The higher-level process control system from Siemens monitors the networked plant and...
17.02.2017
- A while back, I saw a horrific Facebook video of a massive explosion at a processing facility in Mexico that killed 30 people and injured 46. Among the many comments on that post...
17.02.2017
- Few in the chemical industry would have predicted that Swiss-British petrochemicals group Ineos would diversify into car production, though its chairman, Jim Ratcliffe, is often...
17.02.2017
- The European Parliament’s approval on Feb. 15 of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada has been welcomed by the European Chemical Industry...
17.02.2017
- UK charity National Trust is standing firm against allowing seismic surveying – a prerequisite for shale gas exploration – at its historic Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, despite...
17.02.2017
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant and US engineering contractor CB&I have been awarded a contract by Dongguan Grand Resource Science & Technology to jointly develop a new...
