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3 April 2020
Chemtrade suspends 2020 earnings guidance due to Covid-19 pandemic
Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund has announced that its operations have not been significantly impacted by Covid-19 in the first quarter, but due to the prevailing general economic uncertainty resulting from...
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1 April 2020
Univar Solutions and INEOS partner to address hand sanitiser shortage
Chemical and ingredient distributor Univar Solutions has teamed up with UK-based specialty chemicals maker INEOS for the Hands On! campaign to address shortages in hand sanitiser products across Europe.
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30 March 2020
Advanced Petrochemical Company and SK Gas to build PDH and PP plant
Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Petrochemical Company has signed an agreement with South Korean company SK Gas for constructing and operating propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) plants in Jubail Industrial City,...
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27 March 2020
Air Products starts building three nitrogen plants in the Netherlands
Air Products has started building three new nitrogen plants in the Netherlands for Dutch energy network operator NV Nederlandse Gasunie.
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23 March 2020
Hillenbrand to sell Cimcool business to DuBois Chemicals
Indiana-based Hillenbrand’s fully owned subsidiary Milacron Holdings has signed an agreement to sell its Cimcool business to DuBois Chemicals for $224m.
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20 March 2020
Covid-19: Ocean Bio-Chem expands Performacide production
Ocean Bio-Chem has expanded the production capacity of Performacide, due to increase in demand of disinfectants owing to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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18 March 2020
Covid-19: BASF to produce hand sanitisers at Ludwigshafen facility
German chemical company BASF is set to initiate the production of hand sanitisers at its Ludwigshafen site due to the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak reducing regular supplies.
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16 March 2020
Huntsman to acquire CVC Thermoset Specialties for $300m
Huntsman has signed an agreement to acquire CVC Thermoset Specialties, a specialty chemical manufacturer that caters to the industrial composites, adhesives and coatings markets, for $300m.
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13 March 2020
MCHC announces Qualicaps transfer to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) has announced the transfer of Qualicaps affiliated with Life Science Institute Inc (LSII) to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, with effect from 1 July.
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11 March 2020
Bartek to complete malic acid capacity expansion in Q1 2020
Bartek Ingredietns has announced plans to expand its malic acid capacity by 10,000 metric tonnes in the first quarter of this year.