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
In Branchen wie der Automobilindustrie gelten strengste Sauberkeitsrichtlinien für Bauteile. Allerdings lässt sich der Teilereinigungsprozess bislang nur unzureichend überwachen. Fraunhofer-Forscher haben ein sensorbasiertes Messsystem entwickelt, das direkt in die Reinigungsanlage integriert wird und dort Partikel in der Reinigungsflüssigkeit erfasst und … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Chemicals, Germany, Industrial, Science
Tagged Automobilindustrie, Bauteilsauberkeit, Dr. Markus Rochowicz, Dr.-Ing. Markus Rochowicz, Forscher, Fraunhofer, Fraunhofer-Allianz Reinigungstechnik, Messsystem, Nägele Mechanik, Partikel, parts2clean, PuriCheck, Reinigungsanlage, Reinigungsflüssigkeit, Sauberkeitsrichtlinien, sensorbasiertes Messsystem, Stuttgart
Rubber can be extracted from the juice of the dandelion. Yet the decisive breakthrough to industrial manufacturing is proving to be a tough step. Working jointly with industry and science, the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Automotive, Chemicals, Germany, Industrial, Science
Tagged Continental, dandelion, dandelion rubber, extract vast quantities of dandelion rubber, Fraunhofer, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Fraunhofer researchers, making tires, Münster, natural rubber, Prof. Dr. Dirk Prüfer, Prof. Dr. Rainer Fischer, Rubber, rubber procurement, tires
Commercial launch of CT7200 during K Fair 2013 trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany Vienna, Austria, 17-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Borealis, a leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers, announces the launch of a new low … Read the full press release
BorSafe™ ME3440-D and BorSafe™ HE3490-DS-H exhibit higher resistance to chlorinated disinfectants Vienna, Austria, 17-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Borealis, a leading supplier of advanced infrastructure plastics solutions for the pipe and fittings industry, has recently introduced two new BorSafe products exhibiting higher resistance … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Business, Chemicals
Tagged Borealis, BorSafe, BorSafe™ HE3490-DS-H, BorSafe™ ME3440-D, Borstar® bimodal technology, chlorinated disinfectants, fittings, Gilles Rochas, higher resistance to chlorinated disinfectants, infrastructure plastics solutions, pipe, Polyethylene Crosslinked (PEX), Virginia Mesicek
Vienna, Austria, 16-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — At K 2013, Borealis, Borouge and NOVA Chemicals invite you to “Open Your Mind” and explore exciting possibilities for innovation and sustainability driven by their new approaches and cutting-edge plastics solutions (Stand 6A43 Hall 6). … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Austria, Business, Chemicals, Germany, Marketing
Tagged Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, ADNOC, Borealis, Borouge, Chris Bezaire, cutting-edge plastics solutions, Düsseldorf, Germany, International Petroleum Investment Company, IPIC, K 2013, Mark Garrett, new PP BorPure™ homopolymer, NOVA Chemicals, OMV, plastics, polyolefin, PP and PE based solution, Virginia Mesicek, Wim Roels
Hall 7A, Stand D02, Messe Düsseldorf, October 16th-23rd 2013 Tarnów, Poland, 11-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The 19th International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, also known as the K Fair, is being organised this year, from October 16th-23rd in Düsseldorf. Held once … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Chemicals, Germany, Marketing, Poland
Tagged 19th International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, Azoty Group of Tarnów, Düsseldorf, Grupa Azoty, Grupa Azoty ATT Polymers GmbH, Grupa Azoty S.A., Grupa Azoty ZAK S.A., Guben, K Fai, Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Messe Düsseldorf, OXO alcohols, Oxoplast® OT, plasticisers, plastics, plastics industry, Rubber, Tarnamid®, Tarnamid®A, Tarnodur A, Tarnoform®, Tarnoprop, trade fair
Sandefjord, Norway, 11-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — In the first eight months of 2013, the Jotun Group reported sales of paint and powder coatings of NOK 8 174 million. This is an increase from NOK 7 686 million in the same period last … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Financial, Industrial, Norway, Technology
Tagged Jotun Group, Jotun Group sales, Jotun sales growth, Morten Fon, paint, powder coatings, Sverre Knudsen
Hempel is exhibiting at Europort Rotterdam 2013, one of the world’s leading maritime events. The event will take place from 5 – 8 November in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Lyngby, Denmark, 11-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Hempel will be present at stand number … Read the full press release
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