05.05.2017
- A Stockholm, Sweden, arbitration court has postponed a hearing in a tax dispute between the Russian finance ministry and US oil and petrochemials ExxonMobil while the disputing...
05.05.2017
- Sadara, the joint venture of Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco, has started up a new 50,000 t/y high-pressure LDPE plant at its complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Like the three PE...
05.05.2017
- Bayer and Johnson & Johnson have won the first of around 18,000 lawsuits lawsuit being brought by US patients who claim the blood-thinning drug Xarelto caused their uncontrollable...
04.05.2017
- Saudi Arabian petrochemicals giant SABIC is evaluating acquisition opportunities in the range of $3.6 billion in petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and fertilizers, according to...
04.05.2017
- China has become the second major trading bloc to conditionally approve the proposed $130 merger of US chemical giants Dow and DuPont. The green light from the Ministry of Commerce...
03.05.2017
- Ineos has promised a full investigation into the cause of a gas leak in the Kinneil Gas plant at its Grangemouth complex in Scotland, on May 2. The leak in a pipeline transporting...
03.05.2017
- Many environmental programs administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as science funding that had been earmarked for elimination or greatly reduced in...
03.05.2017
- Major pharmaceutical producers threaten to lose $26.5 billion in annual sales this year, as 18 branded drugs are due to expire, analysts for investment bank Bernstein said in a...
