24.01.2017
- US coatings giant PPG Industries said it has bought “certain assets” of Chinese automotive refinish coatings company Futian Xinshi for an undisclosed sum. The assets include Futian...
23.01.2017
- South Korea’s Lotte Chemical is looking to buy Singapore’s Jurong Aromatics Corp. (JAC), according to local media reports. Lotte said in a Jan. 19 filing to the South Korean stock...
23.01.2017
- Eli Lilly is paying around $960 million to acquire biopharma CoLucid, boosting the US drugmaker’s portfolio for migraine pain management and adding a late-stage candidate with a...
23.01.2017
- Saudi petrochemicals giant SABIC and oil-chemicals major Shell have has signed an agreement calling for SABIC to acquire Shell’s 50% share in the joint venture in Shell Arabia...
23.01.2017
- A report first published in January 2016 and presented last week to a global audience at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, calls for a quantum leap in global...
20.01.2017
- In November 2016 Global Bioenergies (GBE) completed the construction of the only demo plant in the world that is dedicated to the direct fermentation of gaseous hydrocarbons. It is...
20.01.2017
- Chilean chemicals and mining group SQM has agreed to pay fines amounting to more than $30 million to the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission...
20.01.2017
- India’s Reliance Industries and Russia’s Sibur have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build the first halogenated butyl rubber plant in south Asia. Signed last week at...
20.01.2017
- Among the “firsts” launched at the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, were – unusually – two projects in which the global chemicals-related industry got its day in...
19.01.2017
- Gerhard Köppikus joined WeylChem on Nov. 1, 2016 as sales director consumer care. Vincent Bossert, who previously occupied this role, will leave the company in April 2017. In his...
