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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.

People
People | 09 March 2016

Huntsman appoints new President of Advanced Materials division

Huntsman Corporation announced that Scott Wright will succeed James Huntsman as President of Huntsman's Advanced Materials division, effective June 1.

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

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 03 March 2016

ExxonMobil focuses on business fundamentals and disciplined investing

ExxonMobil’s downstream and chemical businesses have the scale and integration across refining, lubricants and chemicals to maximize product value while driving operating efficiency.

Digitization
Digitization | 03 March 2016

Argus FMB to organize ‘NPK Fertilizers India 2016’

The business sessions include : A Closer Look at India’s NPK Market, Production of NPKs– What to Look Out For?, Market Potential of Water Soluble NPK and NPK+ Fertilizers, Is WSF the next shining star?, and Management of Horticultural Crops – Agrono

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.

Chemical
Chemical | 02 March 2016

Ceric ammonium nitrate market worth $190.1 mn by 2022

The global ceric ammonium nitrate market is expected to reach USD 190.1 million by 2022, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc.

Chemical
Chemical | 02 March 2016

Specialty Chemicals Market to reach US$1,201.1 billion by 2023 :TMR

If the rate of growth holds true, the market, which had a valuation of US$800.4 billion in 2014, will rise to US$1,201.1 billion by 2023.

Chemical
Chemical | 02 March 2016

Dimethyl Carbonate Market to reach US$690.1 million by 2023 : TMR

The global dimethyl carbonate market was valued at US$390.5 million in 2014 and is projected to reach US$690.1 million by 2023, expanding at a CAGR of 6.6% from 2015 to 2023.

Chemical
Chemical | 02 March 2016

Chemours completes sale of aniline facility to Dow

The Chemours Company announced today that it completed the sale of its Beaumont aniline facility to The Dow Chemical Company.

Chemical
Chemical | 01 March 2016

Gist of Budget 2016-17 for chemical industry

The Union Budget 2016-17 has lowered down the Basic Customs Duty for some of the chemicals and petrochemicals. According to the Budget, Basic Customs duty on denatured ethyl alcohol (ethanol) is being reduced from 5% to 2.5% for manufacture of excisa

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 29 February 2016

Indorama Ventures and Dhunseri form JV in India

IVL in turn will acquire a 50% stake in a carved out entity, called Haldia, of Dhunseri, with an effective capacity of 480,000 tonnes PET manufacturing located in the eastern state of West Bengal. The JV is subject to regulatory approvals and expecte

Chemical
Chemical | 26 February 2016

Market environment remains volatile and challenging, says BASF

Earnings in Oil & Gas decreased primarily due to lower prices, whereas in the chemicals segment the decline was mainly attributable to lower margins in the petrochemicals division.

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