29.08.2016
- Solvay has inaugurated a new carbon fiber production line at its facility in Piedmont, South Carolina, USA, built to meet increasing demand for lightweight composite materials from...
29.08.2016
- Lanxess has decided to double capacity for reverse osmosis (RO) membranes at its site in Bitterfeld, Germany, in order to meet rising demand. Jean-Marc Vesselle, head of Lanxess’...
26.08.2016
- French firms Technip and Metabolic Explorer are assessing the feasibility of combining their respective technologies for polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) and its feedstock 1,2...
26.08.2016
- DSM and its Chinese partner Zhejiang NHU Special Materials (NHU) have officially inaugurated their joint venture for polyphenylene sulphide (PPS) compounds, DSM NHU Engineering...
25.08.2016
- Japanese firms Showa Denko and JX Nippon Oil & Energy are to acquire the 50% stake held by partner LyondellBasell in their PP joint venture SunAllomer. Financial terms were not...
25.08.2016
- Just one month after announcing it was quitting the biopolymers business, Metabolix has signed a binding letter of intent (LOI) to sell its assets to South Korean food company CJ...
24.08.2016
- Swiss drugmaker Roche has agreed to pay a total of around $270 million to gain access to Eleven Biotherapeutics’ potential eye treatment EBI-031. A humanized monoclonal antibody...
24.08.2016
- BASF has opened a new plant for construction chemicals in Sri Lanka, its first in the country. The German chemical company said Sri Lanka’s growing construction industry is...
