AkzoNobel has reported a second quarter with positive developments in profitability in all three Business Areas, despite currency pressures and a challenging market environment.
Evonik is the first company able to use biotech methods to produce surfactants on an industrial scale.
Monsanto has announced that its Board of Directors unanimously views Bayer AG’s revised proposal as financially inadequate and insufficient to ensure deal certainty.
AGC Asahi Glass (AGC), a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, announces that AGC’s subsidiary in Vietnam has changed its company name to AGC Chemicals Vietnam from Phu My Plastics & Chemicals (PMPC).
The augmentation of Sunrex facilities, when completed in November 2017, will bring Mitsui Chemicals global production capacity to 115,000 tons/year.
During May, capacity utilization in the global business of chemistry declined 0.2 percentage points to 79.3 percent. This is off from 81.0 percent last May and is below the long-term (1987-2015) average of 89.2 percent.
Year-to-date production was 33.5 billion pounds, a 3.9 percent increase as compared to the same period in 2015.
This new laboratory will specialize in high performance polymers and renewable energies - two areas of excellence for the Hanyang University.
There were gains in the production output trend of fertilizers, dyes and pigments, chlor-alkali, other inorganic chemicals, industrial gases, plastic resins, pharmaceuticals adhesives, coatings, and other specialty chemicals.
This innovative technology also benefits from the Arkema Group’s back-integration in castor oil, a raw material of renewable origin.
American chemistry is the global leader in production, providing over fifteen percent of the world’s chemicals and representing fourteen percent of all U.S. exports.
Weakness in oilfield chemicals and mining chemicals has weighed on overall volumes. Of the twenty-eight specialty chemical segments we monitor, eight expanded in May, with plastic additives and plasticizers experiencing large gains (1.0 percent or mo
Chemetall is a global technology and innovation leader in the metals surface treatment market, and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
Key milestone in proposed merger of equals and intended creation of three industry-leading companies
USD 122 per share all-cash offer, valuing Monsanto at USD 62 billion, represents immediate and certain value at a substantial premium for Monsanto shareholders
Eastman and Solvay are currently equal partners in the joint venture. The transaction allows Eastman to eliminate costs associated with the excess cellulose acetate flake capacity of the joint venture.
By this expansion, the company will increase its capacity by approximately 100,000 metric tons per year, bringing the total production capacity for methionine to approximately 250,000 metric tons per year, including existing facilities. The new facil
Bayer executives recently met with executives of Monsanto to privately discuss a negotiated acquisition of Monsanto Company.
Chemours reached mechanical completion of the line in December 2015.
Bostik has once again broken new ground in the disposable hygiene market.
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