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Six Hurt in Novartis Plant Chemical Leak

12.12.2012 - Six people who inhaled leaking chemicals at the Novartis plant which makes the company's top-selling drug Diovan were taken to hospital on Tuesday, police said. Novartis had no...

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Cheap Shale Gas Gives Impetus to Bioplastics Growth

07.12.2012 - Makers of chemicals and plastics from plant matter are emerging as unlikely beneficiaries of the abundance of U.S. shale gas, which is shaking up the global petrochemical industry...

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Bayer Plastics Unit May See Turn for the Better

03.12.2012 - The plastics unit of German drugmaker Bayer could see higher returns on its capital in the medium term, making it an "essential part of" the diversified group, its chief executive...

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Arkema Expands Coating Business in Asia Pacific Region

28.11.2012 - Arkema, a global leader in specialty chemicals and a major global coating material player will present its latest developments in Asia for the coating business at Chinacoat 2012...

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Prof. Stefan Buchholz to head Evonik's R&D group Creavis

26.11.2012 - Prof. Stefan Buchholz (50) has assumed the position as head of Creavis, the strategic R&D unit of Evonik. Buchholz studied chemistry in Marburg, Germany and received his doctorate...

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Lukoil Commissions Glatt with the Construction of NaCN Plant

22.11.2012 - Russia's biggest private oil group Lukoil commissions Glatt Ingenieurtechnik again with the construction of a plant for the production of sodium cyanide (NaCN), a chemical that is...

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Songwon Industrial Group Announces Solid Financial Performance in Q3 2012

21.11.2012 - Songwon Industrial Group, the second largest manufacturer of polymer stabilizers in the world and a leading global producer and supplier of additives and other chemicals to the...

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Shale Gas Bonanza

21.11.2012 - Feedstocks - The rest of the world will have difficulties replicating the shale gas boom in the U.S. despite having plentiful reserves of the gas. Furthermore, there could be long...