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Avery Dennison to cut absolute emissions by 26% by 2025

The company also sets ambitious goals for paper sourcing, reducing landfill waste, purchasing film and chemicals, etc

MRF inks MoU for Rs 4500 cr expansion in Tamil Nadu

The company will invest around Rs 4,500 crore at its Perambalur and Arakonam plants over a period of seven years

Anand Pattani to head EPC major Black & Veatch in India

Pattani to focus on expanding operations in the Smart Cities and critical human infrastructure space besides working on the successful completion of IOC's regasification terminal at Ennore

PSUs to allot 20% output of naphtha crackers for downstream industry

The chemical producers stand to gain from this strategy as the industry has been raising the issue of the shortage of feedstock, a key raw material derived from the crackers, with the government

Sequent Scientific opens analytical services centre in Bangalore

Built with a space of 10,000 square feet, the new Bangalore centre will enable company's access to a wider range of therapies including beta lactam and hormones

Praxair to buy Yara's European CO2 business for Euro 218 mn

The US-based company will also acquire Yara's remaining 34% stake in the Yara Praxair Holding AS joint venture for an estimated Euro 94 million

Solvay opens South-East Asia's largest sodium bicarbonate plant in Thailand

Built with an investment of Euro 20 million, the plant will have an annual production capacity of 100,000 tonnes and serve healthcare, food & other consumer goods markets in Asia

Big oil companies turns to big data as oil prices plunge

Big data is becoming a critical competitive advantage, and as a result, oil & gas M&A activity will spreads from oilfield services consolidation into IT plays, says Lux Research

Henkel to collaborate with start-up DropWise for hydrophobic coatings

Two companies aim to explore the novel hydrophobic coating applications to improve the efficiency of industrial equipment, such as heat exchangers used in refineries, power plants, etc

The coming of age of construction chemicals in India: Giles Everitt

Buoyed by initiatives such as 'Housing for All' and '100 Smart Cities', consumption of construction chemicals is set to go up along with robust growth in cement and construction sectors

Why GST is must for Make in India?

With GST highly unlikely to see the light of the day on April 1, 2016, the Make in India dream appears to be under threat at this stage

Shree Pushkar Chemicals to forward integrate into dyes manufacturing

The company will set up a 3000-tonne reactive dyes facility. It also plans to set up a sulphate of potash (SOP) plant with 10,000 tonnes per year capacity

Lubrizol acquires contract drug developer Particle Sciences

The acquisitions broadens Lubrizol's LifeSciences application, pharmaceutical formulation and drug delivery capabilities

Praxair inks helium purchase pact with Nacogdoches Oil

As per the agreement, NOG, , which operates a helium-bearing gas field in Apache County, Arizona, will supply up to 100 million scf per year of helium to Praxair

Vidhi Dyestuffs increase food colours capacity in Roha

This new development will enable the company to service the growing demand of synthetic food colours globally

Deinove and Tyton BioEnergy join hands for green chemicals

The synergistic technologies are expected to provide techno-economic benefits in the production of renewable chemicals by lowering feedstock costs and optimising processing

Evonik buys Dutch hydrogen peroxide producer PeroxyChem

The acquisition will enhance Evonik's hydrogen peroxide capacity in Europe

Slovnaft inaugurates Euro 300 mn LDPE unit in Slovakia

With the new unit, low density polyethylene (LDPE) production capacity will reach 220,000 tonnes per annum

Veolia acquires Dutch PP recycler AKG Kunststof Groep

With this acquisition, Veolia aims to further develop in the strategic circular economy sector

Celanese opens technology centre in Mexico

The new centre will support the automotive, consumer electronics, appliance, medical device, petrochemical and aerospace industries in Latin America