08.06.2016
- Shell Chemicals has finally made the decision to build a major shale-gas to petrochemicals complex on the banks of the Ohio River in Potter Township, Beaver County, northwest of...
03.06.2016
- European chemical production in the first quarter of 2016 was almost on the level of the 2015 quarter, as no significant changes in the business climate were seen, the European...
01.06.2016
- Environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace has criticized the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) passed by the US House of Representatives as “the weakest of all US...
12.05.2016
- The chemical distribution industry has annual sales of around €168 billion globally, with about €28 billion in Europe. As a crucial link in the supply chain that connects...
12.05.2016
- Distributors often see themselves in a central position within the chemicals (or polymers) value chain, as a bridge between supplier expectations and customer needs. This position...
06.05.2016
- Maroon Group has acquired U.S. Chemicals, a specialty chemicals distributor based in Darien, Connecticut, USA, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1960, family-owned U.S. Chemicals...
05.04.2016
- Chemical companies both large and small are more comfortable today than ever before with outsourced contract manufacturing, or tolling, as it’s commonly called. For many tolling is...
04.04.2016
- In September of 2015, Siegfried completed all closing conditions for its acquisition of the custom synthesis business of BASF and parts of the German group’s active pharmaceutical...