23.02.2017
- US industrial gases group Praxair, currently in the midst of merging with German rival Linde, has signed a 15-year agreement with chemical producer Celanese for the supply of...
22.02.2017
- Allergan’s spending spree shows no sign of stopping. It its latest move, the Ireland- based former US drugmaker has agreed to pay nearly $2.5 billion for Zeltiq Aesthetics, a US...
22.02.2017
- US titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer Tronox is to acquire the TiO2 business of Saudi Arabia’s Cristal, expanding its global footprint and presence in faster growing, emerging...
21.02.2017
- UK high-performance polymer producer Victrex has formed a joint venture with its long-standing US-based engineering partner Tri-Mack Plastics Manufacturing. The aim of the new...
21.02.2017
- Two investment companies owned by the Abu Dhabi government - International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) and Mubadala – have merged to form Mubadala Investment Company...
20.02.2017
- US chemical and catalysts producer W.R. Grace has announced that it was contracted in the fourth quarter of 2016 to license its Unipol PP gas-phase process technology to China’s...
20.02.2017
- Following its $1.4 billion offer last month to buy Yingde Gases Group, Air Products has taken the unusual step of publicizing a letter it has written disputing several public...
17.02.2017
- Few in the chemical industry would have predicted that Swiss-British petrochemicals group Ineos would diversify into car production, though its chairman, Jim Ratcliffe, is often...
