25.11.2014
- Monitoring process performance is a critical requirement in any manufacturing process as producing quality products within specification reproducibly is a prerequisite of an...
21.11.2014
- Ineos has promised to invest up to £640m in shale gas exploration in the UK if it is awarded the necessary licenses. "I believe shale gas could revolutionise UK manufacturing, and...
19.11.2014
- BASF has completed its withdrawal from the commodity styrenics market with the sale of its share in the 50:50 joint venture Styrolution to its partner, Ineos, which will operate...
14.11.2014
- Solvay said it is "awaiting details" of a Nov. 13 decision by the Brazilian competition authority CADE not to allow the planned sale of its 70.59% majority stake in Solvay Indupa...
12.11.2014
- Styrenics producer Styrolution - until the end of this year a joint venture of Ineos and BASF - plans to close its 80,000 t/y polystyrene plant at Trelleborg, Sweden, by the end of...
10.11.2014
- In a Manifesto on the Competitiveness of the Plastics Industry in Europe presented at a conference held in Brussels on Nov.4, the two organizations representing plastics producers...
06.11.2014
- Dutch food and chemicals group DSM may sell or spin off lower-performing units, CEO Feike Sijbesma told journalists in a telephone conference to report third-quarter results...
05.11.2014
- For a second time, Ineos has increased the number of vessels required to transport US shale-gas derived ethane to its planned terminals at Grangemouth, Scotland, and Rafnes, Norway...