25.04.2016
- Solvay plans to build additional capacity for hydroquinone (HQ) in China to go on stream in 2018. The investment is being made by its aroma performance global business unit which...
14.04.2016
- A court in Dusseldorf, Germany, has ruled that UK-based Molycorp Chemicals & Oxides has infringed Solvay’s patents for rare earth mixed oxides. The UK affiliate of the Colorado, US...
08.04.2016
- Chlorvinyls producer Inovyn is to convert its mercury-based chlorine plant in Stenungsund, Sweden, to membrane technology as part of its commitment to phase out mercury cellroom...
01.04.2016
- Netherlands-based IMCD has been chosen by Solvay Specialty Polymers to distribute its Fomblin perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubrication grades in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The...
17.03.2016
- Solvay has announced it will quit the Inovyn chlorvinyls joint venture with Ineos in the second half of 2015, more than two years earlier than anticipated, giving its Swiss-based...
29.01.2016
- US chemicals and plastics producer Celanese continues to expand its plastics portfolio through compounding of in-sourced polymer. In its latest move, the company said it will add...
13.01.2016
- Italian performance additives producer Italmatch Chemicals has agreed to buy Solvay’s desalination and phosphonates and phosphonic acid-based water additives business. Financial...
13.01.2016
- Solvay has hired investment banker Goldman Sachs to find a buyer for the polyamide business it picked up for the most part with the acquisition of Rhodia in 2011, the Belgian...
