Arkadelphia, AR, US, 20-1-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — HITCO Carbon Composites – a subsidiary of SGL Group – The Carbon Company announced today that it received the 2012 Supplier Award for Outstanding Quality and Delivery performance from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Awards, Business, Chemicals, Germany, Metals and Minerals, Science
Tagged 2012 Supplier Award, advanced materials, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, composite structures, Delivery performance, GA-ASI, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Glenn Brady, HITCO Arkadelphia, HITCO Carbon Composites, insulation blankets, Predator® Remotely Piloted Aircraft, SGL Group
ThyssenKrupp initiates project to convert process gases from steel production into base chemicals Essen, Germany, 14-1-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — In collaboration with partners from research and industry, ThyssenKrupp AG is initiating a cross-sector technology transfer project focusing on converting process gases from … Read the full press release
Düsseldorf, Germany, 10-1-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — It is a machine of superlatives: four floors high, 82 meters long or the length a high-rise building of 20 floors lying on its side. This monster is heavier than a dozen 747 jumbo jets … Read the full press release
Baar, Switzerland, 7-1-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Sika has acquired the remaining 24.5% of Dyflex HD Co., Ltd. as of January 7, 2014 and achieves 100% ownership. The complete takeover further strengthens Sika’s position in the Japanese construction market. Sika has been … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Construction, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Switzerland
Tagged acquisition, Business, chemicals, concrete admixtures, construction, Dominik Slappnig, Dyflex HD Co. Ltd., Financial, Industrial, investment, Jan Jenisch, Japanese construction market, liquid waterproofing, sealing & bonding solutions, Sika, Switzerland, Takeover
Renmatix’s patented Plantrose TM technology enables production of industrial sugars from non-edible, woody biomass Industrial sugars are important bio-based precursors for a variety of chemicals based on renewable feedstocks Ludwigshafen, Germany / Philadelphia, PA, US, 20-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and American … Read the full press release
Mannheim and Limburgerhof, Germany, 20-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — John Deere and BASF today announced plans to jointly develop a suite of integrated precision farming and farm management solutions for improved execution in the field. These tools, developed together with growers, will provide enhanced … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Chemicals, Germany, Management, Science, Technology
Tagged agricultural business, BASF, BASF’s Crop Protection division, Christoph Wigger, Dr. Brady Spangenberg, Dr. Oliver Neumann, farm management solutions, field, field scouting services, growers, John Deere, Markus Heldt, MyJohnDeere.com, precision farming solutions, tailored agronomic advice
Ultra-modern technical center for foams / New production plant for coating raw materials commissioned Leverkusen, Germany, 02-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — With the latest equipment for product development and the expansion of its production capacity, materials manufacturer Bayer MaterialScience continues to adapt to … Read the full press release
Düsseldorf, Germany, 29-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Die sichere Nahrungsmittelverpackung ist ein Thema mit dem sich Henkel als weltgrößter Klebstoffhersteller intensiv beschäftigt. Auf der Wissensplattform „Food Safe Packaging Portal Europe“ informiert Henkel am 5. Dezember 2013 ab 10 Uhr zum Thema „Adhesives … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Food & Beverage, Germany, Internet & Online
Tagged Dr. Monika Tönnießen, Food Packaging, food safety, Henkel, Online-Seminar, webinar
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — AkzoNobel today announced plans to optimize the manufacturing footprint of its Coil Coatings sites in Europe and Russia by concentrating production at three strategic sites. The company intends to improve operational performance by focusing all European … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Germany, Industrial, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden
Tagged AB Ghosh, AkzoNobel, coil coatings, Conrad Keijzer, Hilden, Lipetsk, Malmö, manufacturing footprint
The plant is a joint venture of MOL and the Japanese JSR Corporation New plant to produce 60,000 tons of synthetic rubber from 2017 The investment is a clear step forward for MOL’s petrochemical value chain Budapest, Hungary, 22-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — MOL … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Energy, Gas & Oil, Hungary
Tagged Factory, joint venture, JSR Corporation, MOL, S-SBR, Sándor Fasimon, Synthetic Rubber, Synthetic Rubber Factory, Tiszaújváros
Heerlen, Netherlands, 22-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, has repurchased 346.038 of its own shares in the period from 15 November 2013 up to and including 21 November 2013 at an average price of €59.06. This … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Financial, Healthcare, Investment, Netherlands, Science
Tagged Dave Huizing, Herman Betten, option plans, repurchase of shares, Royal DSM
Global CDMO company combines DSM Pharmaceutical Products and Patheon Heerlen, Netherlands, 22-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — JLL Partners (“JLL”), a leading middle-market private equity firm, and Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, today announced the creation of a new … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Financial, Healthcare, Investment, Netherlands, Science
Tagged active substances, Allen & Overy and Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, contract development and manufacturing organization, DSM Pharmaceutical Products, Feike Sijbesma, finished dosage, J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Jim Mullen, JLL Partners, KeyBank, Latham & Watkins LLP, Morgan Stanley, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Patheon, Paul S. Levy, Royal DSM, Stefan Doboczky, UBS
Global potash market characterised by considerable uncertainty and by decreasing international potash prices in the quarter under review Potash and Magnesium Products business unit therefore with lower average price level Salt business sales volume a good 9% above the previous … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Chemicals, Financial, Germany, Industrial
Tagged earnings, international potash prices, K+S Group, Magnesium, Michael Wudonig, Norbert Steiner, potash, Potash market, revenues, Thorsten Boeckers
Brussels, Belgium, 19-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Solvay and Shanghai 3F New Material Co.,Ltd. announce today that they have agreed to establish a production joint venture in Changshu (Jiangsu province, China) to serve the fast-growing Asian market with high performance fluorinated polymers. The … Read the full press release
Nottingham, UK, 12-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Artificial materials based on simple synthetic polymers can disrupt the way in which bacteria communicate with each other, a study led by scientists at The University of Nottingham has shown. The findings, published in the journal Nature … Read the full press release
Düsseldorf, Germany, 8-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Henkel’s Laundry & Home Care business sector has been recognized for the second time with the European Supply Chain Excellence Award 2013, presented by the European business magazine Supply Chain Standard in association with Pricewaterhouse … Read the full press release
The Electronics Group of Henkel continues to expand its halogen-free materials portfolio with the launch of Loctite Multicore HF 212, a halogen-free, lead-free solder paste ideal for today’s high-value PCB assemblies. Düsseldorf, Germany, 8-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Like Henkel’s other halogen-free formulations, … Read the full press release
Rolle, Switzerland and Brussels, Belgium, 6-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Solvay and INEOS take note of the European Commission’s decision to continue its evaluation of their proposed 50/ 50 Joint Venture in European chlorvinyls activities. This follows the original notification of the planned … Read the full press release
Brussels, Belgium, 5-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether the planned combination of the European chlorvinyls businesses of INEOS of Switzerland and Solvay of Belgium into a newly created joint venture was in line … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Chemicals, European Union, Government, Investment, Law, Management, Switzerland
Tagged bleach, EU Merger Regulation, European Commission, INEOS, Joaquin Almunia, joint venture, Mergers, PVC business, S-PVC, sodium hypochlorite, Solvay
Closure is part of the “SGL2015” cost savings program Operations will begin to wind down at the end of the year with expected completion within Q1/2014 110 employees impacted Wiesbaden / Lachute (QE, Canada), 24-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — SGL Group – The … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Germany, Metals and Minerals
Tagged CANADA, carbon-based products, graphite electrode, Lachute, QE, Québec, SGL Group, The Carbon Compan, Wiesbaden
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