23.06.2016
- Italian state-owned oil, gas and petrochemicals group Eni and US private equity company SK Capital have broken off talks over the sale of a majority stake in Eni’s chemicals and...
22.06.2016
- Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has agreed to acquire Italian PVC film producer Alfatherm for an undisclosed sum. Headquartered in Varese, Alfatherm is the fourth largest...
22.06.2016
- German consumer chemicals producer Henkel has opened its new test facility for automotive composites in Heidelberg, Germany. The Composites Lab is focused on helping automotive...
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...
