10.07.2014
- Speciality minerals producer ICL and AkzoNobel have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on long-term production and marketing of vacuum salt and...
04.07.2014
- Japan's Mitsubishi Rayon (MRC) and Saudi petrochemical giant Sabic have announced a start-up date of mid-2017 for their MMA and PMMA plants at Al Jubail / Saudi Arabia. Initial...
01.07.2014
- BASF has decided to exercise the put option in its 2011 joint venture agreement with Ineos and sell its 50 % stake in Frankfurt, Germany-based styrenics producer Styrolution to the...
12.06.2014
- BASF and Lafarge have announced plans for a new construction chemicals joint venture at Erbil in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan. The new partnership links the world's...
06.06.2014
- Two workers suffered minor burns, and ethylbenzene was released into the atmosphere following two explosions at the Moerdijk chemical complex in the Netherlands late on June 3...
30.05.2014
- Saudi Petrochemical giant Sabic and Korean petrochemical producer SK Global Chemical have agreed to establish a $595 million, 50:50 manufacturing joint venture for high-performance...
27.05.2014
- Lianheng Isocyanate, the joint venture of BASF and Huntsman and Chinese partners has received permission to double its MDI capacity in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) to...
23.05.2014
- Ineos is moving quickly to expand its position as Europe's leading PVC producer. The Swiss-based group's subsidiary Ineos Compounds has announced plans to merge with UK independent...
