27.11.2013
- The first carbon permits in Shanghai traded at 27 yuan ($4.43) on Tuesday, as the financial hub launched China's second such trading scheme in a bid to cut its fast-growing...
20.11.2013
- Dutch food and chemicals group DSM will spin off its pharmaceuticals unit into a new joint venture majority-owned by private equity firm JLL Partners as the company shifts its...
18.11.2013
- Lanxess has increased capacity for the high-performance intermediate cresol at Leverkusen, Germany, by 20% at a cost of €20 million. The Cologne-based specialty chemicals producer...
18.11.2013
- Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), Malaysia's state oil firm, and Italian oil company Eni's chemical unit said they have inked a joint venture agreement to make synthetic rubber in...
14.11.2013
- After a 26% plunge in EBITDA to €187 million in the third quarter, German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess has narrowed its guidance for full year 2013. The company now expects...
12.11.2013
- Swiss industrial group Klesch has agreed that Barclays will supply crude oil to its German refinery in a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars a month that boosts the bank's...
11.11.2013
- BASF chief executive Kurt Bock said German jobs could be lost if the chemicals giant has to start paying electricity grid fees to shift the burden of funding a renewable energy...
30.10.2013
- DuPont has announced that it will spin off its $7 billion Performance Chemicals division, including the titanium dioxide and the chemicals and fluoroproducts businesses, to...