23-05-2013

Oxea announced that it successfully commenced operations at its new state-of-the-art plant for the production of carboxylic acids in Oberhausen, Germany. This new facility will boost Oxea’s global carboxylic acid production capacity by around 40 percent. It was completed after a construction ...

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22-05-2013

Effective from May 01st, 2013, Thomas Arnold has been appointed as Managing Director of Biesterfeld Spezialchemie GmbH. He will lead the company and its European organization together with Dr. Nicole Hamelau. Thomas Arnold (53) is responsible for the operative business of Biesterfeld ...

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BASF further invests in growth field enzymes with three transactions

17-05-2013

With three separate transactions, BASF has strengthened its technology footprint in industrial enzymes, one of BASF’s identified growth fields: BASF has completed the acquisition of Henkel’s detergents enzyme technology. Additionally, BASF has entered into a research and license agreement ...

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17-05-2013

The Lewabrane membrane elements manufactured by LANXESS for water treatment using reverse osmosis comply with the “NSF/ANSI Standard 61” for health-related implications of drinking water system components. The U.S. National Sanitation Foundation (NSF International) has certified that all ...

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16-05-2013

OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBIO) and Evonik Industries AG announced the two companies have entered into an agreement to jointly develop certain bio-based specialty chemicals. The joint-development agreement signed May 3rd 2013 calls for OPXBIO to use its proprietary EDGE™ (Efficiency ...

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15-05-2013

During the first six months of fiscal year 2012/13 the business trend in the ZEISS Group was marked by the difficult conditions experienced in some markets. Nevertheless, the Group concluded the first half of the year (ended 31 March) with revenue totaling EUR 1.978 billion (first six months ...

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15-05-2013

“Merck got off to a solid and profitable start in 2013 with all four divisions contributing to our organic sales growth. In addition, we are making excellent progress on our ‘Fit for 2018’ program. This can clearly be seen in the 19% increase in EBITDA pre one-time items,” said Karl-Ludwig ...

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14-05-2013

Global demand for expandable polystyrene (EPS) in the construction and packaging industries will slow down, but continues to increase. Important factors are the recovery of the construction sector after the financial and economic crisis in 2008/09, state-funded programs to improve energy ...

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German Federal Ministry of Education and Research sponsors a subproject to develop innovative electrolytes for solar cells

14-05-2013

Merck announced the start of a project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to develop high-efficiency cobalt-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The project COBRA (organic cobalt-based low-cost printable large-area photovoltaics) will run for three ...

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13-05-2013

Peter-Alexander Wacker remains at the helm of Wacker Chemie AG’s Supervisory Board. The Board unanimously elected the 62-year-old entrepreneur as its chairman at its constituent session, held directly after the 2013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. In a speech to some 1,000 shareholders, Rudolf ...

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