22.08.2014
- Japan's Mitsui has agreed to acquire global business operations for DuPont's copper fungicide Kocide. Mitsui's US subsidiary will establish a local company to buy the business...
29.07.2014
- Even if not quite 20 years old, Swiss-based specialty chemicals producer Clariant can nevertheless look back on an eventful history. With years of extensive restructuring...
18.06.2014
- Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings and Mitsui plan to form a joint venture to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA) in the US from shale gas-derived feedstocks, Japanese reports say. In a...
09.05.2014
- Japanese trading houses say they will push on with investments in North American shale oil and gas fields, despite writedowns in the sector on low gas prices and reduced reserve...
06.05.2014
- Korea's Idemitsu Kosan and Japanese partner Mitsui have canceled preliminary plans for a 50:50 linear alpha olefins joint venture in the U.S., effectively pulling the rug from...
03.04.2014
- U.S. chemical producer Celanese has announced plans to build a second 1.3 million t/y methanol plant at its Bishop, Texas site, using low-cost natural gas from the U.S. Gulf Coast...
02.04.2014
- Dow-Mitsui Chlor-Alkali, the joint venture of U.S. chemical giant Dow Chemical and Japan's Mitsui & Co, has started full-scale, commercial production at Freeport, Texas. The jv...
04.12.2013
- As part of plans to "right size" its chlorine footprint to meet its needs in downstream markets, Dow Chemical said it will carve out "a significant portion" of its chlorine value...
