Europe - Page 2

EuroChem acquires BASF fertiliser assets in Belgium
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 EuroChem has acquired BASF's fertiliser activities in Antwerp, Belgium, for around €830m, including a deferred part of around €130m payable over the period 2013 to...

Linde to support new Kaistar LED plant
Monday, March 26, 2012 China-based Linde LienHwa (LLH) has entered into an agreement to deliver bulk gases and ammonia (NH3) to Kaistar's new production facility in Xiamen,...

Chemtura upgrades Italian facility
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Chemtura, a manufacturer of speciality and agrochemicals, has upgraded its Latina Scalo facility in...

BASF to expand cyclohexane oxidation capacity
Friday, March 16, 2012 BASF is investing about €10m to expand the capacity of cyclohexane oxidation at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium, as part of two long-term planned...

BASF invests in Allylix
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 BASF Venture Capital has invested $13.5m in US-based renewable chemicals company...

IVL to purchase PET resin facility of PT Polypet Karyapersada
Thursday, March 08, 2012 Indorama Ventures (IVL) has signed a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin facility from PT Polypet Karyapersada, located in Cilegon, West...

Lanxess to build new neodymium polybutadiene rubber plant in Singapore
Monday, March 05, 2012 Lanxess will build a new neodymium polybutadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) plant at Jurong Island Chemical Park,...

Asahi Kasei grants thermylene PP manufacturing rights to Polyplast
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Asahi Kasei Chemicals's wholly owned subsidiary Asahi Kasei Plastics North America has licensed German-based Polyplast Compound Werk (PCW) to manufacture and distribute its thermylene family...

Bayer Dormagen TDI plant moves ahead
Friday, February 24, 2012 Bayer MaterialScience will build a chemical plant in Dormagen, Germany, following approval from the Cologne regional...

Sepa fines ExxonMobil for failing to report CO2 emissions
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has fined ExxonMobil £2.8m ($3.3m) for failing to report 33,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from its Mossmorran ethylene plant in Fife,...

AOC, Dow award PO unit contract to Foster Wheeler
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Aramco Overseas Company (AOC), a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, and Dow Europe have awarded a contract to Foster Wheeler to develop a propylene oxide (PO) unit at Jubail Industrial City in the...

Air Products begins new hydrogen production plant in Netherlands
Friday, February 10, 2012 Air Products and ExxonMobil have inaugurated a new hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam,...

Samsung Total to use LyondellBasell technology for LDPE, EVA production plant
Thursday, February 02, 2012 Samsung Total Petrochemicals, a joint venture of Samsung General Chemicals and Total Petrochemical, will use Netherlands-based LyondellBasell's Lupotech T process technology to build a 200...

Total and Samsung to expand JV petrochemical complex in South Korea
Monday, January 30, 2012 Total and Samsung Petrochemicals are investing $1.8bn to expand and upgrade their joint venture (JV) petrochemical complex, Samsung Total Petrochemicals, in Daesan, South...

Rhodia and Avantium partner to develop biobased polyamides
Friday, January 27, 2012 Rhodia, a member of the Solvay Group, and Avantium have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly develop new bio-based polyamides that target a variety of...

Yanchang Petroleum to equip new HDPE resin plant with Lyondell process technology
Thursday, January 26, 2012 Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yanan Energy and Chemical has been granted permission to use LyondellBasell's Hostalen ACP process technology under a new licence...

DSM and POET join forces for cellulosic ethanol production
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Royal DSM has entered into an agreement with POET to form a cellulosic ethanol joint venture (JV)...

Novamont and Genomatica sign BDO plant JV agreement
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Novamont and Genomatica have formed a joint venture (JV) to operate the first butanediol (BDO) industrial plant in Europe to use renewable...

Bayer constructs new plant for coating raw materials
Monday, January 23, 2012 Bayer MaterialScience, a Bayer Group company, has started construction of a multipurpose facility to produce polyurethane coating for raw materials at Leverkusen,...

Nuplex signs MoU with KVIL Group
Monday, January 23, 2012 Nuplex Resins BV, a European business of Nuplex Industries, has entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a joint venture (JV) company with KVIL Group...