22.01.2016
- Trade unions of Italian petrochemical and plastics producer Versalis gathered again across Italy this week to protest unconfirmed plans by its corporate parent, energy giant Eni...
22.01.2016
- Styrolution, the former styrenic polymers joint venture of BASF and Ineos, acquired in full by Ineos at the end of 2014, is changing its name to Ineos Styrolution to reflect its...
21.01.2016
- Smart glasses, once exemplified by the original but failed Google Glass, are seeing a resurgence, but are now driven by enterprise rather than consumer applications. Other rivals...
20.01.2016
- Johnson Matthey’s Fine Chemicals Division has completed an expansion of its Cambridge, UK facilities, bringing additional process research & development services and kilo-scale...
20.01.2016
- AkzoNobel has boosted its position in the North American hydrogen peroxide market with the purchase of all outstanding shares in EkO Peroxide, a joint venture with OCI Peroxygens...
20.01.2016
- Danish biotechnology company Novozymes has separated its biopharma activities into an independent company called Albumedix. The new company will be headquartered in Lyngby, Denmark...
20.01.2016
- As Asia’s burgeoning chemical giant ChemChina sharpens its focus on European takeover targets – it recently bought plastics machinery manufacturer Krauss Maffei and made a bid for...
20.01.2016
- Plans unveiled last year by BP of the UK and Russian oil conglomerate Rosneft to reshuffle their shareholdings in the German refinery sector have now been approved by the boards of...
20.01.2016
- If the buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show is any indication of things to come (and it usually is), 2016 is expected to be the year of augmented reality(AR) and – even more -...
20.01.2016
- Germany’s Merck KGaA has appointed two new executive board members. Udit Batra and Walter Galinat, heads of the Life Science and Performance Materials business sectors respectively...
