21.11.2016
- French engineering and technology provider Axens has raised its bid to acquire rival company Heurtey Petrochem to €25 per share. The Paris-headquartered firm had previously offered...
21.11.2016
- A Schulman, the US plastics compounder and distributor, is slashing 60 jobs – mainly in Europe – as it comes to terms with the fallout from last year’s acquisition of compatriot...
21.11.2016
- UK specialty chemicals producer Croda has opened a new office in the Iranian capital of Tehran. The Hull, England-based company said the Croda Pars office, which will cater to the...
20.11.2016
- After four busy days of business sessions and meetings by members of the global chemical business community, the EPCA 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting has concluded with its annual...
20.11.2016
- Petrochemicals are currently the biggest of the industrial chemicals sectors, accounting in 2016 for 40 percent of the global chemicals market of around €2.65 trillion. And...
19.11.2016
- Ashland is a specialty chemicals company serving customers in a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, including adhesives, architectural coatings, automotive, construction...
18.11.2016
- Netherlands-based Corbion and French energy and petrochemicals group Total are linking up in a bioplastics joint venture in Thailand. The 50:50 joint venture, to be located in the...
18.11.2016
- Dow Chemical and DuPont expect to receive formal objections to their proposed $60 billion merger from EU antitrust authorities as soon as December, according to newswire Bloomberg...
18.11.2016
- BASF is in the process of expanding its North American MDI output to take advantage of the abundance of cheap shale gas-derived feedstock on the US Gulf Coast. The German chemical...
18.11.2016
- US federal prosecutors in New York’s Southern District have arrested a former executive of Canada-headquartered Valeant Pharmaceuticals and the former CEO of the erstwhile mail...
