30.09.2016
- Indonesia’s largest integrated petrochemical producer, Chandra Asri Petrochemical (CAP), has signed an agreement with Univation Technologies to license the US company’s Unipol PE...
30.09.2016
- Catalent has announced plans to acquire Pharmatek Laboratories, a contract drug development and clinical manufacturing company, for an all-cash undisclosed sum. The acquisition...
29.09.2016
- BASF is to build a new acetylene plant at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The 90,000 t/y facility is scheduled to start up at the end of 2019, replacing the existing plant which...
29.09.2016
- Alpek, the petrochemicals arm of Mexican conglomerate Alfa, has been granted a 30-day extension to continue exclusive negotiations to acquire Petroquimica Suape and Citepe from...
28.09.2016
- Celanese has started production of vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) at its newly constructed plant on Jurong Island, Singapore. Investment costs were not revealed for the facility...
28.09.2016
- ChemChina has filed for European antitrust approval of its $43 billion bid for Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta. The European Commission was notified of the request on Sep. 23...
27.09.2016
- In a move to boost its portfolio of small molecule API services, US-based life sciences company Cambrex has agreed to buy PharmaCore for $25 million. With 60 employees, PharmaCore...
27.09.2016
- Russian gas and petrochemicals giant Sibur has upgraded and expanded its polymer production at Tomsk. Sums totalling more than 10 billion rubles ($157 million) have been spent on...
