22.03.2017
- Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions, engineering and construction arm of French industrial gases powerhouse Air Liquide, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with...
21.03.2017
- Oilfield chemicals major Wood Group, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, has made a £2.2 billion all-share offer to acquire US rival Amec Foster Wheeler. The bid represents a 15% premium...
21.03.2017
- US petrochemical producer Oxea has begun construction on a new plant at Bay City, Texas, for 100,000 t/y of propanol and 40,000 t/year of propionaldehyde. Purnendu Rai, executive...
20.03.2017
- British oil and petrochemicals major BP and Swiss-based olefins and polyolefins producer Ineos have confirmed they are in talks about Ineos taking over the 100-mile-long Forties...
20.03.2017
- BASF is spending more than €200 million on expanding its production network for plastic additives. In its latest move, the German group said it will build a 42,000 t/y world-scale...
17.03.2017
- Citing a “significant” increase in demand, Germany-based engineering plastics producer Covestro will keep its 200,000 t/y MDI plant at Tarragona, Spain, on stream rather than...
17.03.2017
- The administration of new US president Donald Trump is quickly moving to put its election campaign promises into practice. Much of its activity focuses on overturning President...
16.03.2017
- UK-based distributor Swan Chemical (SCI) a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Swan & Co, has agreed with compatriot Robinson Brothers to globally market that company’s Robac...
