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BASF Says no Fault Obvious in Ludwigshafen Blast

12.04.2017 - BASF sees itself vindicated by the results of one of preliminary investigations into a deadly accident that killed four people at its Ludwigshafen headquarters last autumn and...

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Pemex Details Contracts in “Car Wash” Probe

11.04.2017 - Mexican prosecutors have called officials at national oil company Petroleos Mexicano (Pemex) to give testimony in the “car wash” bribery and corruption scandal that has engulfed...

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BP Chief Faced 40% Pay Cut in 2016

11.04.2017 - Oil and petrochemicals giant BP has revealed that it cut the annual salary of CEO Bob Dudley by 40% in 2016, from $19 million to $11.6 million, and reduced the maximum amount the...

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Ineos and Grangemouth Staff Lock Horns Again

10.04.2017 - Trouble appears to be brewing again at Ineos’ mammoth Grangemouth complex in Scotland, three and half years after a labor dispute brought the site to the brink of closure. This...

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BASF Sells Catalyst Chemicals Unit to EP Minerals

10.04.2017 - BASF has agreed to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP Minerals for an undisclosed sum. The deal’s closing is expected for the third quarter, following...

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US Congress Pursues More Environment Rollback

07.04.2017 - Alongside already known or implemented moves rolling back decades of US environmental protection legislation and the 31% cut in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget...

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Air Products Starts up New Plant in China

07.04.2017 - US industrial gases producer Air Products has started up on a new oxygen and nitrogen plant in China’s southern Guangdong province, supporting a unnamed “leading global...

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Linde-Praxair Deal Still Faces Homegrown Problems

06.04.2017 - Wolfgang Reitzle, former CEO and current supervisory board chairman of German gases and engineering group, has told German news media he is prepared to use his double vote to seal...