Keyword: China

Chemistry & Life Sciences

BDO: The Pacemaker Stumbles

19.11.2015 - 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) is an important chemical intermediate product and raw material for plastics, solvents and synthetic fibers. The alcohol’s production capacities have been...

News

Lanxess in new Chinese Rubber JV

16.11.2015 - Germany’s Lanxess has agreed to form a 50:50 marketing and joint venture with China’s Chongqing Changshou Chemical to exclusively handle Chinese distribution of chloroprene rubber...

Strategy & Management

The Chemical Quotient

28.10.2015 - What should be the key criteria when searching for the best location for a chemical investment? One might do worse than to use the guiding principle of famous bank robber Willie...

News

Hazardous Chemicals to be Moved from Tianjin

16.10.2015 - Companies producing hazardous chemical in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, where deadly warehouse explosions killed more than 160 people in August, will be moved to an industrial...

News

BASF and Sinopec Inaugurate INA Plant

13.10.2015 - BASF and Sinopec have inaugurated their world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone at Maoming, China. The new 180,000 t/y facility – the...

Strategy & Management

Heavy Reliance on Contract Manufacturing

07.10.2015 - The results of ISR’s 2015 Contract Manufacturing Quality Benchmarking study give insight into the outsourcing preferences and practices of 116 buyers of commercial manufacturing...

Strategy & Management

Camelot’s Pharma Management Radar

07.10.2015 - The Internet of Things (IoT), where smart devices, machines and people communicate and exchange information with each other, has the power to revolutionize the life sciences...

Markets & Companies

Measuring China’s Importance

07.10.2015 - In the past 10 years, we have gradually become accustomed to China’s economic rise. In some ways, we are no longer as surprised by it as we should be. I realized this recently when...