28.07.2015
- Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara International and BASF, world’s largest chemical producer, have broken ground for a world-scale ammonia plant at BASF’s Freeport, Texas, site...
21.07.2015
- US Agricultural giant Cargill, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has made an equity investment in California-based biotech firm Genomatica. As part of the deal, Cargill has...
08.06.2015
- Despite their innate conservatism, the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas industries are always looking for new products that are more effective than those they replace, or...
05.06.2015
- Perstorp has been a well-known name in chemistry for over 130 years. Founded in 1881 as a producer of acetic acid and later formalin, the Swedish company went through an eventful...
30.04.2015
- Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies division has opened a new plant at Zhangjiagang City in China's Jiangsu Province to produce state-of the-art catalysts used in...
21.04.2015
- Brazilian chemical giant Braskem is reviewing plans to build a world-scale ethane-fed cracker and downstream polyethylene plants in Parkersburg in the US state of West Virginia in...
19.01.2015
- In the US, where economic growth has been characterized as "slow and steady" for some time, expansion and strength in the chemical industry continues and momentum is building. In...
19.01.2015
- After the cancelation of the $6.4 billion Al-Karaana petrochemical project planned as an 80:20 joint venture of Qatar Petroleum and Shell, Industries Qatar, the Gulf's second...
