01.10.2014
- Pharmaceutical companies have outsourced several critical steps in the discovery and development of new drugs and the scale-up of processes and the manufacturing of APIs. Pharma...
01.10.2014
- Capitalizing on the widening availability of shale-gas derived feedstock, Huntsman is doubling MDI output at Geismar, Louisiana, by 400,000 t/y up to 2018. In a preliminary step...
26.09.2014
- To diversify its supply of energy to the German market, BASF's oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall recently agreed to purchase assets worth $1.25 billion from Norway's Statoil. In...
25.09.2014
- BASF will dissolve its paper chemicals division from Jan. 1, 2015 and spread its products and activities across other divisions of the Performance Products segment, where they fit...
22.09.2014
- BASF has started up a new 155,000 t/y butadiene extraction plant at Antwerp, Belgium, complementing a 105,000 t/y unit at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, home base. The new facility...
16.09.2014
- A joint research team of BASF, Cargill and Novozymes, at work since August 2012 to develop a process for the conversion of renewable raw materials into bio-based acrylic acid, said...
04.09.2014
- BASF has opened its new regional Electronic Materials R&D Center in Korea at Sungkyunkwan University's (SKKU) Suwon Campus in Gyeonggi. The new facility, the German group's first R...
02.09.2014
- The World Conference on Fabric and Home Care has grown to become the premier international event in the industry. Since 1977, the conference has been held every four years in...
