09.05.2017
- Hindustan Petroleum Corp. (HPCL) and Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal will invest about $3 billion to set up a petrochemical complex in Punjab, India, according to the Times of...
13.04.2017
- China's Ministry of Commerce has greenlighted the takeover of Swiss agrochemicals producer Syngenta by ChemChina, as expected. The two companies said the approval, which comes...
24.03.2017
- Just as news agencies and the CEOs of and DuPont had begun reporting that the merger of the two US chemical powerhouses was close to receiving all regulatory approvals, antitrust...
14.03.2017
- BASF has inaugurated its new Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Mumbai, India its largest R&D investment in South Asia to date. The €50 million investment is said to “significantly...
20.01.2017
- India’s Reliance Industries and Russia’s Sibur have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build the first halogenated butyl rubber plant in south Asia. Signed last week at...
21.11.2016
- In the last 12 months, developments in China’s chemical industry have been somewhat contradictory, as illustrated by two different company statements made in September. On the one...
17.11.2016
- Danish biotechnology company Novozymes is building a new enzyme production and supply chain facility in India to accommodate its growing business in the country. An initial...
31.08.2016
- AkzoNobel has broken ground on a new powder coatings plant in Mumbai, India. Capacity details were not revealed for the facility scheduled to start up in late 2017. The plant...
