14.09.2016
- Japan’s Teijin has agreed to buy US composites specialist Continental Structural Plastics Holdings (CSP) for $825 million. Benefiting from CSP’s established sales channels, the...
14.09.2016
- In one of the largest single investments made at Darmstadt in recent years, Germany’s Merck KGaA has opened a new plant for manufacturing organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). A...
13.09.2016
- French drugmaker Sanofi and US-based Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences) have launched a joint-venture company, Onduo, in a bid to improve patients’ management of...
13.09.2016
- Following a heads of agreement signed in June, ChemChina chairman, Ren Jianxin, and Rosneft’s CEO, Igor Sechin, have inked another contract, setting the framework for further...
12.09.2016
- Canada’s Nova Chemicals has announced the mechanical completion of its PE1 expansion project at Joffre, Alberta. A third gas phase reactor capable of producing around 450,000 t/y...
12.09.2016
- German-based global chemical distributor Brenntag has once again boosted its presence in the North American lubricants market with the purchase of Mayes County Petroleum Products...
08.09.2016
- In response to global market growth, BASF is to install additional capacity for Ultrason polyarylsulfone in Yeosu, South Korea. A new 6,000 t/y production line will start up at the...
08.09.2016
- SABIC has sold its Polymershapes business to US investment firm Blackfriars Corp. for an undisclosed price. Polymershapes is a major distributor of plastic sheet, rod, tube and...
