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General
General | 12 March 2016

INEOS Intrepid carries first US shale gas to Europe

This is the first time that US shale gas has ever been shipped to Europe and represents the culmination of a long-term investment by INEOS.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 12 March 2016

Saudi Aramco CEO urges to focus on specialty chemicals for diversification

Saudi Aramco has an ambitious plan to raise the Company’s total global refining capacity throughput to between 8 to 10 million barrels per day.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 12 March 2016

PolyOne launches specialty automotive TPEs

PolyOne also introduced OnFlex LO specialty TPEs, which help automotive OEMs improve the driver experience by reducing the number of VOCs in vehicle interiors by up to 50 percent. Targeted applications include HVAC seals, buttons, controls, coin tray

People
People | 09 March 2016

DuPont Names Krysta Harden as VP of Public Policy and CSO

DuPont announced that Krysta Harden has joined the company as Vice President of Public Policy & Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), succeeding Linda Fisher who elected to retire last month.

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.

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.

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