01.08.2016
- As it continues to beef up its carbon fibers business, Japan’s Mitsui & Co. has taken an equity stake in Forward Engineering, a German company specializing in the design and...
01.08.2016
- LyondellBasell is to go ahead with plans to build an HDPE plant on the US Gulf Coast based on its newly developed proprietary Hyperzone technology. CEO Bob Patel revealed during a...
01.08.2016
- Following a business review, US technology and specialty materials company Celanese has decided to stop production, storage and distribution of monomethylamine (MMA) at Cangrejera...
01.08.2016
- Bayer CropScience has withdrawn its flubendiamide insecticide sold under the trade name Belt after losing its appeal against a decision of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s...
01.08.2016
- Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC) has announced it will sell its production facilities for PET feedstock PTA in India and China by the end of this year, citing continuing...
01.08.2016
- A US-UK partnership will spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next five years to tackle the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance. The Combating Antibiotic Resistant...
01.08.2016
- As it prepares to separate from its TiO2 business by the first quarter of 2017, Huntsman said it is planning to include its textile-effects business to the spin-off package to make...
01.08.2016
- Long-time Eli Lilly chairman and CEO, John C. Lechleiter, has announced plans to retire in December of this year after 30 years with the US drugmaker. Succeeding the 62-year-old...
29.07.2016
- Darren Spiby, to date Cornelius managing director, has been promoted to the role of CEO. With this organizational change his former role will cease to exist. Spiby will be...
29.07.2016
- A new study of male honeybees (drones) conducted by a doctoral candidate at the University of Bern, Switzerland, shows that two neonicotinoid insecticides, thiamethoxam and...
