22.06.2016
- Germany’s Talke has won a contract to build a logistics facility for Unipetrol in Litvinov, Czech Republic, to cater for the additional volumes from the new PE plant being built at...
22.06.2016
- German engineering plastics producer Covestro has inaugurated its new CO2-to-polyols plant at Dormagen, Germany. The facility that cost €15 million to build will produce 5,000 t of...
21.06.2016
- Italian engineering group Maire Tecnimont has signed several agreements for projects in Russia. The first, with Eurochem and Russian construction company Velesstroy, relates to...
21.06.2016
- Sandoz, the generics arm of Swiss drugmaker Novartis, has announced plans to launch five biosimilars of major oncology and immunology biologics across key global markets by 2020...
21.06.2016
- Now that business has largely expounded is position, the debate over a possible UK exit from the EU seems to have shifted its focus to the environment. David Baldock, director of...
21.06.2016
- Germany’s Grillo-Werke has achieved what it calls a “breakthrough” in the activation of methane, after years of intensive research succeeding in converting it to high-purity...
20.06.2016
- The EU chemical industry calls for a reformed European Emissions Trading System (ETS) that enables allocation of free carbon allowances based on recent industry production and...
20.06.2016
- As it continues to pursue the acquisition of Monsanto for $62 billion, or possibly more, Germany’s Bayer is seen as potentially exploring a sale of its radiology supplies unit...
20.06.2016
- The Indian government plans to consider establishing a Central Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology (CICET) to train future industry employees, Ananth Kumar, India’s...
20.06.2016
- BASF has announced plans to acquire German surface treatment chemicals specialist Chemetall from US fine chemicals producer Albemarle for $3.2 billion in cash. Albemarle said the...
