19.09.2012
- Clariant, a producer of fabric repellency treatments, has increased its capacity to produce next-generation fluorochemicals at its plant in Gendorf, Germany. With an investment of...
18.09.2012
- Specialty chemicals company Lanxess demonstrates its expertise in product innovation for synthetic rubber by unveiling its AA concept tire. The concept tire is among the first to...
18.09.2012
- In light of high overcapacities and low margins in some regions, BASF is focusing its global Styropor (EPS: expandable polystyrene) activities on strategic markets and core...
18.09.2012
- As the second largest consumer of synthetic latex polymers in the world after North America, the combined states of the EU-27 consumed nearly 2.5 million dry tons of synthetic...
17.09.2012
- DKSH, a Market Expansion Services Group with a focus on Asia, and Wacker, the Munich-based chemical company have entered into a strategic regional partnership covering the whole of...
30.08.2012
- DuPont struck a deal to sell its slow-growing car paint business to private equity firm Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion cash as it seeks to focus on higher-growth areas such as...
28.08.2012
- BASF has increased its global annual capacity for the production of the chemical intermediate PolyTHF (chemical name: polytetramethylene ether glycol - PTMEG) from 185,000 metric...
27.08.2012
- Chemicals maker TPC Group has agreed to be taken private for $627.2 million by private equity firms First Reserve Corp and SK Capital Partners as prices for its main product, used...
