28.10.2015
- Since the discovery of large oil reserves in the late 1850s, Ontario’s chemical industry has steadily grown, turning the province into a global hub for the petrochemical industry...
28.10.2015
- Dow Chemical is shifting at least some of its investment priorities to the US from the Middle East, and in particular restructuring its engagement in Kuwait. The forward-looking...
23.10.2015
- Lotte Chemical, the petrochemicals manufacturing arm of South Korea’s diversified Lotte Group, has completed construction of a chemical complex worth $389 million at Surgil...
23.10.2015
- Air Liquide Advanced Technologies US, a subsidiary of the French industrial gases producer, has acquired PoroGen, a US manufacturer of porous polymeric membranes used in many...
19.10.2015
- Shell has declared force majeure (FM) for base chemicals product from its cracker complex at Singapore, due to what it called an “operational upset” on Oct. 15. The incident...
09.10.2015
- Following a strategic review, Saudi Arabian petrochemicals group SABIC has announced a new corporate organization that it said is designed to address changes in the market...
09.10.2015
- Covestro, the formerly Bayer MaterialScience, and green chemistry specialist Reverdia, the Dutch-based biomaterials joint venture of DSM and Roquette Frères, have agreed to jointly...
08.10.2015
- A small fire was quickly extinguished on Oct. 6 at a Hexion resin processing plant within Shell's US refining and petrochemical complex in Deer Park, Texas, a Hexion spokesman told...
