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Strategy & Management

Will BASF Turn to Pig Farming? Not quite, but …

11.08.2020 -

Why BASF Venture Capital is investing in SmartAHC, a supplier of digitalization solutions for pig farming on the Chinese market.

Strategy & Management

Consolidation, Risk Reduction and Demand Shift

21.04.2020 -

Like most industries, the global chemical industry is currently strongly affected by the outbreak of Covid-19.

Markets & Companies

The Corona Virus and the Chemical Industry

07.02.2020 - Trying to evaluate the effect of the Corona virus on the chemical industry at this time is difficult. It would be very tempting to reply quoting Zhou Enlai, who reportedly (when...

Sites & Services

Chemical Parks in China

09.12.2019 - At the end of the year 2018, China had a total of 676 chemical parks. Of these, 57 are classified as national-level parks, 351 as provincial-level parks and 268 as municipal-level...

Markets & Companies

One Belt, One Road

29.11.2018 - The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the One Belt, One Road policy (OBOR), is an initiative launched by the Chinese government in 2013. The core idea is to improve...

Strategy & Management

China’s Anti-pollution Clampdown

30.03.2018 - Since late 2016, the Chinese government has conducted a series of environmental inspections of production companies. These inspections have typically led to short-term closures of...

Sites & Services

Converging Developments?

25.11.2017 - In Europe as well as in China, chemical parks host the most important production plants of the chemical industry. Although the reasons for their emergence and their development...

Markets & Companies

Upgrading of the Chinese Chemical Industry

05.09.2017 - At a study session earlier this year attended by members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the...