06.11.2015
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is expecting to file 20 new drugs by 2020, with another 20 to follow in the following five years. In a presentation to investors in New York, CEO Andrew Witty...
05.11.2015
- SA Talke, a joint venture between Germany’s Talke Group and Saudi Industrial Services (SISCO), has been awarded a contract to carry out on-site logistics for National Petrochemical...
04.11.2015
- Petronas Chemicals Group (PCG), part of Malaysia’s state-owned energy group Petronas, has acquired three companies that are participating in the Refinery and Petrochemicals...
04.11.2015
- Celanese will close its vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) emulsions plant in Meredosia, Illinois, USA, by Dec. 15. The company explained that it “favors integrated production sites that...
03.11.2015
- DuPont’s interim CEO Edward Breen, who took the helm following the resignation of long-time CEO Ellen Kullman in mid-October, has lost no time in streamlining the chemical giant’s...
02.11.2015
- Evonik and eight partners are researching a new reactor concept based on membrane technology. The Romeo research project, which started this autumn, aims to cut energy consumption...
02.11.2015
- Mexico’s Alpek will boost capacity for expandable polystyrene (EPS) at Altamira by 75,000 t/y, taking total production to 240,000 t/y. Construction work is scheduled to start next...
21.09.2015
- Germany’s Merck has been granted a license from Austrian lighting solutions company Tridonic Jennersdorf to make and market silicate phosphors for potential use in white light LEDs...
