May. 06, 2015News & Opinions
(CHEManager International 5/2015) EU - US Chemicals Trade Extra-EU chemicals trade in 2013 totaled € 229.3 billion with exports reaching € 139 billion, thus delivering an EU chemicals trade ...
Apr. 23, 2015Topics
Chemicals are vital to our well-being. They help us grow more abundant crops and preserve our food. In the form of plastics, rubber and foam, they help make our homes, factories and vehicles clean and comfortable. They enable us to make ...
Apr. 11, 2015Topics
The Gulf area of the Middle East offers opportunities for international chemical distributors because of its strong economic growth derived from oil wealth. But many multinational chemical distributors, especially those based in Europe, ...
Jan. 20, 2014Topics
Under the Surface of the U.S. Boom - Innumerable articles have been published around the world on the U.S. shale boom. In addition, its immediate consequences for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries - such as reductions in liquefied ...
Dec. 16, 2013Topics
Hydrocarbon Building Blocks - Exploitation of shale deposits in the U.S. has risen quickly and will continue to intensify in the coming years as technology and expertise improve and extraction costs decline. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ...
Nov. 15, 2013Topics
Leveraging Feedstocks' Advantage - Behind the Arabian Gulf petrochemical and chemical industry lies three decades of exceptional growth: leveraging advantaged feedstocks, economies of scale, integration and world-leading process technology ...
Nov. 14, 2013Topics
Bahrain had not been on the map of many investors from the chemical industry until December 2012 when German chemical giant BASF inaugurated a new plastics additives facility in the kingdom situated off the Saudi Arabian coast in the ...
Nov. 25, 2011Topics
Uncontained Complexity - Plant maintenance within process industries is often complicated and managing several plants is even more difficult. The same tasks are often performed differently at different plants, even when they are owned by ...
Jul. 20, 2011News & Opinions
BASF has announced it will build a state-of-the-art plant for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in Bahrain. CSBs are key additives for the production of polymers for the plastics industry, especially for the Middle East region. ...
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