22.12.2017
- China has announced that the first phase of its long-awaited nationwide carbon emission trading scheme (ETS), expected to be the largest of its type worldwide, will focus initially...
21.12.2017
- BASF is reshuffling its top management well ahead of its usual succession timetable, with Kurt Bock to relinquish his position as chairman of the managing board, or CEO – three...
21.12.2017
- Belgian materials technology and recycling group Umicore has agreed to acquire the metathesis catalyst business of Pasadena, California-based Materia Inc., valuing the assets at...
21.12.2017
- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under its new administrator Scott Pruitt has made another surprise announcement overturning a consensus found before he took office. In...
20.12.2017
- At a Dec. 19 meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and high-ranking cabinet ministers, management of Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world’s largest generic drugmaker and Israel...
20.12.2017
- The European Commission is apparently not entirely satisfied with the concessions Bayer and Monsanto have offered in exchange for approval of their proposed $66 billion merger...
19.12.2017
- BASF has declared force majeure on deliveries from its 400,000 t/y production for polyurethane feedstock MDI at Chongqing, near Shanghai, China, and has had to stop production...
18.12.2017
- At the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the waters continue choppy, due not least to the many legislative rollback plans announced by current administrator, Scott Pruitt...
