08.06.2015
- From Sept. 1, the company formerly known as Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) will trade under the name Covestro. The new name will precede an initial public offering planned for the...
08.06.2015
- Until recently, most chemical players outside the petrochemicals segment may have taken scant notice of the vast upheaval sweeping the upstream petrochemical and plastics...
25.02.2015
- Two months after a new CEO took the reins at LyondellBasell, the Rotterdam-based company with business headquarters in Houston, Texas, is looking for a new CFO. LyondellBasell said...
18.02.2015
- DuPont has fired another verbal salvo at activist shareholder Nelson Peltz. In a letter to shareholders, the US chemical giant countered Peltz's criticism of its performance...
29.01.2015
- LyondellBasell has upgraded the positions of three of its senior executives, Timothy D. Roberts, Patrick D. Quarles and Kevin W. Brown. Roberts, formerly executive vice president...
23.12.2014
- Malaysian national oil and gas giant Petronas has chosen LyondellBasell's technology for its 900,000 t/y polypropylene plant scheduled for mechanical completion in July 2018...
23.12.2014
- Declining crude oil prices are taking their toll on US petrochemical companies that in the recent past have been riding the shale gas boom and expanding their production using...
01.10.2014
- James Gallogly, CEO of LyondellBasell since May 2009, will retire in early 2015, the company has announced. A committee of the supervisory board has been appointed to find a...
