17.05.2019
- Concluding AkzoNobel’s industry-first challenge called ‘Paint the Future’, five start-ups were rewarded with awards from AkzoNobel and one start-up received an additional award...
10.04.2019
- Availability and supply of essential resources for chemical production are getting increasingly challenging. At the same time, mankind has developed a throwaway mentality that is...
03.01.2019
- Amidst the current investment boom, UN climate talks and Brexit, the fine and speciality chemicals industry eagerly awaits their annual get-together at Chemspec Europe 2019 to...
Virtually all areas of our lives would be inconceivable without products that come directly or indirectly in contact with chemical production: It affects the modern...
28.09.2017
- Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks are starting a new company that they say will match the biotech’s synthetic biology leadership with Bayer’s knowledge and experience in agriculture and...
05.05.2017
- Sadara, the joint venture of Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco, has started up a new 50,000 t/y high-pressure LDPE plant at its complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Like the three PE...
30.03.2017
- Japan’s Nippon Shokubai has agreed to buy Sirrus, a US-based company that has developed cost-advantaged technology to produce reactive monomers at high purities. The transaction is...
22.03.2017
- An enthusiastic response to AkzoNobel's Imagine Chemistry initiative has resulted in more than 200 innovative ideas being submitted by chemistry start-ups, scientists, research...
