07.05.2019
- US plastics and rubber producer Trinseo is looking at strategic alternatives for its polycarbonate (PC) activities. President and CEO Frank Bozich said the review has been prompted...
30.04.2019
- As the end of April and international Labor Day May 1 approached, 240 striking union members at a Dow specialty chemicals production site in Deer Park, Texas remained locked out...
12.04.2019
- In its first deal since splitting from DuPont on Apr. 1, Dow has signed an agreement with Petronas Chemicals Glycols to collaborate on a carbon project at Petronas’s ethylene oxide...
08.04.2019
- At the beginning of April, the new Dow – minus the suffix “Chemical” – became the first of three newly constituted companies to be spun out of the DowDuPont conglomerate created in...
29.01.2019
- DuPont Industrial Biosciences has broken ground on its new multidisciplinary facility in the Leiden Bio Science Park at Oegstgeest, the Netherlands. With its new project, the Dow...
29.11.2018
- The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the One Belt, One Road policy (OBOR), is an initiative launched by the Chinese government in 2013. The core idea is to improve...
27.11.2018
- Saudi Aramco has abandoned the idea of a major bond issue to finance its acquisition of the Saudi government’s 70% stake in compatriot petrochemicals and plastics producer SABIC...
09.11.2018
- The City-County Council of Indianapolis, Indiana, has approved plans for a $30 million package of investment incentives for Dow-DuPont spinoff Corteva Agriscience if it retains its...