06.12.2017
- Germany’s Evonik and Dow Chemical – the latter is part of newly merged DowDuPont – have decided to terminate their StoHaas acrylic acid joint venture with effect from Dec. 31, 2017...
06.12.2017
- US specialty materials company Celanese is suing Polish distributor Falken Trade Polska over alleged infringement of its patent on sweetener acesulfame potassium, or Ace-K. The...
05.12.2017
- Russian oil company Rosneft and Indonesian energy group Pertamina have formed a joint venture to build a grassroots refinery and petrochemical complex in Tuban, East Java...
04.12.2017
- AstraZeneca and GI Therapeutics, a US clinical-stage oncology company, are collaborating to test a new combination therapy for lung cancer. The parties will evaluate AstraZeneca’s...
04.12.2017
- Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) has approved Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) plans to invest more than 400 billion dirhams ($109 billion) over the next five...
01.12.2017
- US technology company W.R. Grace has won two contracts in China for its Unipol PP process. The first award was from Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical, which is building a 350,000 t/y...
30.11.2017
- In a provisional ruling announced on Nov. 21, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Canadian pharma Concordia abused its dominant position to overcharge...
30.11.2017
- Following the signing of a joint venture with Tiangang Auxiliary in September, Clariant has been given the go-ahead by China’s local authorities to purchase a site for its proposed...
