20.12.2016
- BASF has announced changes to its managing board as well as a redistribution of board responsibilities from May 13, 2017. Two executives are due to step down, with Margret Suckale...
19.12.2016
- Wacker Chemie has announced it will invest around $150 million in a new pyrogenic silica plant in Charleston, Tennessee, USA. Construction work on the facility, which will have an...
19.12.2016
- Major US drugmaker Pfizer will use IBM Watson Health’s artificial intelligence technology to help in its efforts to find new cancer medicines. The deal will use the Watson for Drug...
19.12.2016
- Continuing in the mode of choosing people for his cabinet who are not politicians and who have ties to industry, US president-elect, Donald Trump, has chosen ExxonMobil’s chairman...
19.12.2016
- Dow Chemical has announced it will convert $4 billion worth of preferred shares held by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle and Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund...
16.12.2016
- Alexander Krapivin has joined Reverdia as Business Development Manager, effective immediately. Krapivin previously worked at GFBiochemicals, developing the market for bio-based...
16.12.2016
- Sadara Chemical and Rufayah Chemicals Company (RCC) have signed a long-term supply agreement under which Sadara will supply RCC with pygas and pyoil for a new complex planned for...
16.12.2016
- Brazilian polyolefins producer Braskem has agreed to pay fines and indemnities worth $957 million relating to the “car wash” scandal that erupted in 2014. The company has signed a...
16.12.2016
- Lonza has clinched the mooted deal to buy Capsugel, a Morristown, New Jersey, USA-based producer of capsules for delivery of drugs and food supplements, from US private equity...
16.12.2016
- After seeing no growth in 2016, the European chemical industry council CEFIC is forecasting a “small uptick” in EU chemical production of around 0.5% in 2017, despite a “volatile...