BASF has inaugurated its new production plant for concrete admixtures in Lagos, Nigeria. The production site is BASF’s answer to the increasing demand for construction chemicals in western Africa. BASF produces standard and ...
Green Biologics (GBL) has announced the closing of an internal follow-on equity round of $42 million co-led by Swire Pacific Limited (HKEX: 00019/00087) and Sofinnova Partners. Existing investors Capricorn Venture Partners, Oxford Capital ...
European coatings companies have been hoping that this year would bring a revival in their domestic markets as the European Union economies, particularly those in the eurozone, started to show signs of recovery around mid-2013. But the ...
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Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) and Rennovia, Inc. announced today that ADM has committed to a $25 million equity investment in the privately held company, which develops catalysts and processes for the cost-advantaged production ...
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EU chemicals production in October expanded by 1.8 per cent compared to the year prior, according to the latest Cefic Chemicals Trends Report released today. The October reading confirmed the recovery trend followed by the EU chemical ...
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Wichita, Kan.-based fibers and polymers manufacturer Invista and Portugal-based computational biology company SilicoLife have agreed to work together to develop new technologies for the creation of bio-derived processes for industrial ...
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AkzoNobel has announced plans to phase out the production of organic peroxides at its site in Deventer, the Netherlands by the end of 2016. Under the plans, the production activities currently carried out in Deventer will be moved to other ...
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Global manufacturer and supplier of high-performance chemistries and materials, Avantor Performance Materials has started production of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) pharmaceutical chemicals at its new production facility in ...
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Chemicals production in the European Union contracted 2.1% year-on-year in the first quarter, industry body Cefic said in its latest Chemicals Trends Report Friday. Monthly production data for March showed a 2.8% drop compared with March ...
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EU chemicals production in February dropped 2.3% year on year while the overall EU chemicals industry confidence indicator continued to deteriorate in April, mainly due to lower order-book assessments, industry body Cefic said Thursday. ...
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The petrochemicals and chemicals production capacity of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is expected to rise to 191.2 million tons by 2020, which would be a whopping 50 percent rise over last year’s capacity of 127.8 million ...
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German chemical giant BASF Group announced recently, its financial performance in 2012 hit the record, and the sales grew 7% compared to 2011. In the fourth-quarter, BASF sales reached Euro 19.6b, up 9% year on year; EBIT reached Euro ...
The relentless rise in raw materials costs, which has been hitting European coatings producers over the last 2-3 years, has at last been easing. But the relief from the constant pressure of rising input prices may be short lived. The ...
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BASF has begun production of chemicals for water treatment and paper manufacturing at the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in Nanjing, China. BASF adds that these wholly-owned, world-scale production plants for quaternized cationic monomers ...
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European chemicals output will contract by 2.0 per cent in 2012 compared with 2011, European chemicals group Cefic said. A lowering of its forecast released in September, the chemicals trade body downgrade reflects recent data showing a ...
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