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Chemical
Chemical | 16 March 2016

Sulfuric acid market to touch US$85.40 Bn by 2023

The global sulfuric acid market was valued at US$ 67.99 bn in 2014 and is projected to reach US$ 85.40 bn by 2023, expanding at a CAGR of 2.6 per cent between 2015 and 2023, says a report by Transparency Market Research.

Chemical
Chemical | 16 March 2016

BASF and Kolon Plastics fors JV for the production of POM in Korea

The 50:50 joint venture named Kolon BASF innoPOM, Inc. will have an annual capacity of 70,000 metric tons.

Chemical
Chemical | 16 March 2016

Haskell acquires Leidos Constructors and design assets

Haskell has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Leidos Constructors, as well as select design assets of Leidos Engineering.

Chemical
Chemical | 15 March 2016

Linde facilitates photovoltaic cell capacity expansion in SE Asia

Linde not only provides materials, but also regional expertise in the form of engineering solutions and permitting guidance to deliver high-value advantages to customers in this competitive space.

Chemical
Chemical | 15 March 2016

BASF and Avantium intend to establish JV

The JV will use the YXY process developed by Avantium in its laboratories in Amsterdam and pilot plant in Geleen, Netherlands, for the production of FDCA.

Chemical
Chemical | 15 March 2016

BioAmber announces year end operational and financial results for 2015

Research and development expenses for the year ended December 31, 2015 increased to $20.3 million from $15.2 million last year.

Chemical
Chemical | 15 March 2016

AMPAC Fine Chemicals brings new capacity online to meet business growth

AFC reports the most recent High Potency facility 'Semi-Works #4' is fully operational and they have started construction of a large-scale facility that will come on-line in late 2016.

Chemical
Chemical | 14 March 2016

Asia Bio-Chem Group announces insolvency

Asia Bio-Chem Group Corp. announces that due to the continued high cost of corn in China and the economic downturn experienced over the past three years the company has become insolvent.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 March 2016

Publication of Swiss Prospectus for ChemChina cash offer

The intended offer values Syngenta’s total outstanding share capital at around USD 43 billion. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and other conditions.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 March 2016

2015: A sluggish year for the German chemical industry

Production drop by 2.6 percent against the previous quarter while chemical prices fall by 1.6 percent. Sales of the chemical industry decline by 1.5 percent

Chemical
Chemical | 09 March 2016

European innovation pathway critical following Paris climate agreement

Ecofys find that despite this need, most of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) set out in the ground-breaking climate agreement leave out the need for low carbon innovation leaps.

Chemical
Chemical | 09 March 2016

Sasol earnings resilient despite oil, chemical prices decline

The impact of lower oil and commodity chemical prices was partly offset by a 24% weaker average rand/US dollar exchange rate (R13,62/US$ for the six months ended 31 December 2015 compared with R10,99/US$). The average margin for our speciality chemic

Chemical
Chemical | 09 March 2016

2016 to be a record year for Chemicals M&A: A.T. Kearney

With two mega-deals already announced—Dow Chemical and DuPont's $130 million merger and ChemChina's $43 billion bid for Syngenta—and potential large new transactions generated by emerging-market players, total chemicals M&A values for 2016 could doub

Chemical
Chemical | 09 March 2016

Dorf Ketal Chemicals acquires US-based Flow-Chem

Dorf Ketal has acquired Flow-Chem Technologies (Flowchem), based in Rayne, LA (USA). Flowchem is a speciality oilfield chemical provider that operates across Gulf of Mexico and US onshore market with blending facilities located at Rayne, Louisiana an

Chemical
Chemical | 08 March 2016

Solvay and Boeing extend advanced lightweighting materials supply contract

Solvay and the Boeing Company announce that they have extended their contract through 2020 for the supply of high-performance, structural composite and adhesive materials used to lightweight Boeing’s large passenger aircraft for legacy programs such

Chemical
Chemical | 03 March 2016

Mitsui Chemicals launches bio-polyol JV in India

The company aims to manufacture and sell bio-polyol using Indian castor oil from non-edible plants as a main raw material.

Chemical
Chemical | 03 March 2016

AGC, JMTC set up bio -organic acid venture

The new company will commercialise the technologies at an early date, by acquiring part of the intellectual property, etc for organic acid production based on Schizosaccharomyces pombe (S. pombe) developed by AGC, as well as by using engineers second

Chemical
Chemical | 02 March 2016

Taiwan-Japan Oxo Chemical selects Axens’ technologies

Axens has announced that Taiwan-Japan Oxo Chemical Industries Inc. (TJOCI) will use Axens’ technologies and catalysts for its isononyl alcohol (INA) production plant.

Chemical
Chemical | 02 March 2016

Global APC Software Market in the Chemical Industry Through 2020

The global advanced process control (APC) software market in the chemical industry to reach USD 367.8 million by 2020, growing at a CAGR of close to 7%, according to Technavio’s latest report.

Chemical
Chemical | 02 March 2016

Industrial cleaning market worth 50.24 billion USD by 2020

The industrial cleaning market size was USD 39.24 Billion in 2014, and is projected to reach USD 50.24 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 4.2% between 2015 and 2020.

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