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Air Liquide opens hydrogen facility in Saudi Arabia

Built with investment of more than Euro 350 million, the facility will supply hydrogen to the new Yasref refinery (a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and China's Sinopec)

AkzoNobel to expand performance coatings R&D facility in US

The upgraded facility will support the company's protective coatings, marine coatings and specialty coatings businesses

Arkema to double specialty molecular sieves capacity in France

The expansion, to be carried out with Euro 60 mn investment, will cater to its customers, in particular in the refining and petrochemicals sector of Asia and the Middle East

US-based Connell Brothers acquires ingredient distributor Mascot Universal

Through this deal, Connell Brothers is planning to tap the growing market of personal and health care ingredients in India

Reliance to shut down distillation unit at Jamnagar refinery for maintenance

The other three crude distillation units including major secondary processing units will remain unaffected and operate at normal throughput

Effective evaluation software: A tool to reduce capital cost risk in EPC projects

Determining the capital cost of a plant is complex. By using economic evaluation software platform, EPC companies can reduce capital risk and gain an economically-viable competitive advantage

Over 1000 firms to be green company rated by 2017: CII

By going GreenCo way, CII estimates that these companies would save about Rs 2,000 crore, apart from gaining other tangible and intangible benefits

Implementation of GST will be a big positive signal to investors: Dr Joerg Strassburger

In this interview, Dr Joerg Strassburger, CEO of Go East Advisors, highlights on steps to be taken by the government to encourage investment in the chemical industry

Thermo Fisher acquires Johnson Matthey's Alfa Aesar for Pound 256 mn

Johnson Matthey's research chemicals business, which operates globally under the Alfa Aesar brand, is a supplier of over 45,000 speciality chemicals

Institute of Chemical Technology expands DBT-ICT Center for Energy Biosciences

The centre, which is now in its second five-year phase, primarily focusses on developing biotechnologies for deriving energy from renewable resources

Gujarat Alkalies & Nalco to set up caustic soda plant in Dahej

The project, which is estimated to cost Rs 1,789 crore, is being taken up as a backward integration initiative of Nalco

Clariant eyes huge potential for innovative pigments in paints industry

The company receives 'Star of IPCA award' at the recently concluded Indian Paint & Coating Association (IPCA) conference in Goa

Wind energy target of 60 GW by 2022 is easily achievable: CPI-ISB report

While wind power is already cheaper than the total cost of power from a new build imported coal plant, solar power will become competitive with power from imported coal by 2019, adds the report

PolyOne opens innovation centre in China

The new facility enables collaborative innovation, accelerates application development and increases speed-to-market for customers in the Asia Pacific region

Huntsman acquires Italian PU elastomer maker Tecnoelastomeri

Tecnoelastomeri is a manufacturer of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) based hot-cast elastomer systems and processing machine

Flokser, BioAmber & DuPont Tate collaborate to develop synthetic leather

Synthetic leather fabric has 70% bio-content, which is made using BioAmber's polyol Bio-SA and DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products' Susterra (bio-based 1,3-propanediol)

Swedish firm Medivir inks research partnership pact with GVK Bio

Through this tie-up, the Swedish firm is aiming to increase its focus on its core research areas of oncology and infectious diseases

Govt launches cluster development programme for pharma industry

The government aims to set up six pharma clusters by the end of this financial year, of which three are likely to be greenfield projects

BASF begins work on new chemical catalysts plant in Shanghai

The plant, BASF's first process catalysts facility in Asia Pacific, will produce base metal catalysts, custom catalysts and adsorbents to meet growing demand in China and Asia

Arkema plans to divest Sunclear subsidiary to BF Invest

Sunclear markets a wide range of products including polycarbonate sheets, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) sheets, and PVC panels