Toward achieving cost savings in the double-digit million euro range, Germany’s OQ Chemicals, part of the Oman-based OQ energy group, has announced a cost-cutting scheme...
26.03.2020
- HCS Group, a Germany-based global manufacturer of hydrocarbon and chemical specialty products, signed a definitive agreement to sell its US Oxo-product business to Aeicon, an...
07.02.2017
- Ten years ago, in March 2007, oxo chemicals producer Oxea was established as a buyout led by private-equity firm Advent International of oxo derivatives and oxo intermediates...
05.06.2015
- Perstorp has been a well-known name in chemistry for over 130 years. Founded in 1881 as a producer of acetic acid and later formalin, the Swedish company went through an eventful...
04.03.2015
- Burkhard Quellenberg (47) is Oxea's new Global Director Human Resources. His previous career has included management positions at IT multinational Bull and mechanical engineers...
25.11.2013
- Advent International announced its divestment from Oxea, one of the largest global manufacturers of oxo chemicals. Oman Oil Company (OOC), a commercial company wholly owned by the...
25.09.2013
- On September 20, 1938, the German chemist, Dr. Otto Roelen, then the research director at Ruhrchemie in Oberhausen (now Oxea), filed a patent application for the oxo synthesis. His...
05.11.2012
- Following the capacity increase of its syngas production facility in Bay City, Texas, USA, the chemical company Oxea is in the last stages of completion of a feasibility study of...
