31.08.2016
- As the US agriculture sector awaits a final opinion from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the threat to bee populations from neonicotinoid-based pesticides (neonics)...
31.08.2016
- AkzoNobel has broken ground on a new powder coatings plant in Mumbai, India. Capacity details were not revealed for the facility scheduled to start up in late 2017. The plant...
31.08.2016
- Kazakhstan Potash Corporation (KPC) and Chongqing Agricultural Production Material Group have agreed to jointly develop a major fertilizer production and distribution hub in China...
31.08.2016
- The mammoth Sadara complex at Al Jubail Industrial City II, Saudi Arabia, has started up its mixed feed cracker, which will form the core for the $20 billion project operated by a...
30.08.2016
- Barcelona's iconic basílica Sagrada Família, designed by Antoni Gaudí, attracts around three million visitors a year although it has not yet been completed. The startling edifice...
30.08.2016
- French contractor Technip and Dutch biomass technology company BTG BioLiquids (BTL) have signed an exclusive collaboration agreement. Under the terms of the deal, Technip will...
30.08.2016
- US dyes and specialty pigments provider Keystone Aniline has acquired Colour Synthesis Solutions (CSS) based in Manchester, UK, for an undisclosed sum. CSS provides colored and non...
30.08.2016
- BASF has sold its global photoinitiator business to IGM Resins based in the Netherlands to focus on resin and additive technologies for radiation-curing markets. Financial terms...
30.08.2016
- In several interviews over the past few days, German economics minister and vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, stirred up troubled waters on both sides of the Atlantic again with...
29.08.2016
- Solvay has inaugurated a new carbon fiber production line at its facility in Piedmont, South Carolina, USA, built to meet increasing demand for lightweight composite materials from...