01.03.2016
- Thai polyester producer Indorama Ventures (IVL), the world market leader, and Dhunseri Petrochem have agreed to form a 50:50 joint venture to produce and sell PET polymer in the...
11.02.2016
- Following the approval of all relevant antitrust authorities, the new synthetic rubber joint venture of Lanxess and Saudi Aramco will start life on April 1 under the name Arlanxeo...
19.01.2016
- With falling oil prices making resource-rich Middle East countries nervous, some of them are looking for new sources of revenue to finance their burgeoning petrochemical empires...
18.01.2016
- Israel Chemicals (ICL) has completed the acquisition of a 15% stake in Yunnan Yuntianhua, China’s leading phosphate producer, for about $250 million. The investment is part of the...
08.12.2015
- Iran National Petrochemical Company (NPC) vice president, Mohammad Hassan Peyvandi, has confirmed that the company has been in talks with BASF about a “giant joint investment...
16.11.2015
- Germany’s Lanxess has agreed to form a 50:50 marketing and joint venture with China’s Chongqing Changshou Chemical to exclusively handle Chinese distribution of chloroprene rubber...
13.10.2015
- BASF and Sinopec have inaugurated their world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone at Maoming, China. The new 180,000 t/y facility – the...
03.09.2015
- In April, Ferrostaal, based in Essen, Germany, and Haldor Topsoe, headquarterd in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded the joint venture Ferrostaal Topsoe Projects with registered office...
