25.01.2017
- Even before his controversial nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, is confirmed by the Senate, newly inaugurated US President...
25.01.2017
- Closing of the $130 billion merger between US chemical majors Dow and DuPont now appears unlikely before late in the 2017 third quarter, DuPont CEO Ed Breen said in a conference...
24.01.2017
- On his first official business day as newly elected US President, Donald Trump signed his first executive order, withdrawing the country from negotiations over the Trans-Pacific...
24.01.2017
- Teori Zavascki, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice overseeing parts of the Operation Car Wash corruption investigation involving oil giant Petrobras, was killed, along with four...
24.01.2017
- BASF has announced it will widen MDI capacity at its Antwerp, Belgium, production site to 650,000 t/y of the starting material for polyurethane foam from 550,000 t/y currently. The...
23.01.2017
- Saudi petrochemicals giant SABIC and oil-chemicals major Shell have has signed an agreement calling for SABIC to acquire Shell’s 50% share in the joint venture in Shell Arabia...
23.01.2017
- A report first published in January 2016 and presented last week to a global audience at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, calls for a quantum leap in global...
20.01.2017
- Among the “firsts” launched at the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, were – unusually – two projects in which the global chemicals-related industry got its day in...
