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Mitsui Chemicals to shut down PU and phenol production facilities

The company will carry out massive restructuring plan for its loss-making polyurethane and phenol businesses; the work on its JV bio-polyol plant in India will not be affected

BASF supplies paints for BMW's innovative electric car

New BMW i3 body design presents new challenges for the coating

Versalis and Elevance to jointly develop bio-chemicals from veg oils

The partners will construct the first world-scale ethylene metathesis-based production unit that will utilise renewable oils at the Versalis Porto Marghera site in Italy

Venus Remedies receives Indonesian GMP certification for Baddi unit

The company is eyeing cancer drug market in Indonesia, and expects to launch its products in the country by the middle of this year

Lanxess donates Rs 53 lakhs to support Teach for India

Specialty chemicals maker has been supporting the NGO with financial aid since 2010

RCF's Finance Director demits office

The company appoints ex-Director of IIT (Kharagpur), Danodar Acharya, as Independent Director

Gujarat High Court puts stay on government's recover orders to GSFC

Department of Fertilizers had issued an order to recover of 'undue benefit' earned by P&K fertiliser producers using cheap domestic gas as feedstock

Elevance awards EPC contract to URS for Natchez biorefinery

URS' scope of work involves converting Elevance's existing biodiesel plant into a new biorefinery

Biocon and US-based Baxter open research centre in Bangalore

The centre will engage in a wide range of R&D activities centred on product and analytical development and preclinical evaluation in parenteral nutrition and renal therapy

BASF inaugurates R&D centre for battery materials in Japan

The laboratory focuses on electrolytes and electrode materials for lithium ion batteries

Case Study: ZLD technology gives a new lease of life to dyeing units in Tirupur

Dyeing units in Tirupur turned to Praj Industries' wastewater treatment technology to find answers to their effluent treatment woes, which had led to the closure of these units

Altana buys DSM's PP wax emulsion business

The acquired business will be integrated into Altana's BYK Additives & Instruments division

Tata Chemicals posts Rs 16 crore loss in Q3 2013-14

European operation restructuring impacts Q3 results

Solvay to hike natural soda ash capacity in the US

The company to increase capacity of natural soda ash at Green River plant in Wyoming by 1,50,000 metric tonnes

PPG to acquire Hi-Temp Coatings

Hi-Temp's unique technologies enhances PPG's growth opportunities, particularly in the petrochemical segment

Indorama acquires Europe's PHP Fibers

The acquisition of PHP significantly enhances the Thai firm's high value add product portfolio

Lupin acquires Dutch firm Nanomi to enter complex injectables market

Founded in 2004, Nanomi is an independent, privately owned drug delivery company

Pluss Polymers eyes emerging markets for growth

Gears up to foster new partnerships and strengthen existing ones in Turkey and South East Asia markets in 2014

Standards for pigments in food grade plastics to be revised

ETAD ready to extent support to BIS in framing stringent standards in line with global norms for dyes and pigments industry

Albemarle joins efforts to reduce global mercury emissions

Till now, 94 countries have signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury, including the US, the majority of EU, and China