30-06-2010

A new IChemE office in Shanghai is open for business following the successful application to local government for a wholly owned foreign enterprise (WOFE) business licence. The office will primarily be used to serve the growing IChemE member base in China and forge stronger links with Chinese ...

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01-02-2010

Arkema formally completed its acquisition of Dow's Acrylic Monomers and Acrylic Latex Polymers (UCAR Emulsion Systems) business in North America. Following this acquisition, the Clear Lakes (Texas) Acrylic Monomers production site is being integrated into the existing Acrylics business unit, ...

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11-06-2009

With stable visitor and exhibitor figures and unprecedented internationality, ACHEMA 2009, the world chemical engineering summit, demonstrates a confident focus on the future. By the time the doors closed after five days of the 29th ACHEMA, over 173,000 visitors from all over the world had ...

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Board of Directors of Ciba recommends shareholders accept offer

16-09-2008

BASF has announced a public tender offer for all outstanding shares of Ciba Holding AG at CHF 50.00 per Ciba share. The offer equates to a premium of 64.3% over the volume‑weighted average price of Ciba shares over the last 60 trading days and a premium of 32% over the closing share price on ...

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Major R&D center in Shanghai to open

17-04-2008

Rhodia celebrated the laying of the foundation stone for a new world-class Research & Development facility in Shanghai, China. The new facility, due to open in summer 2008, shall reinforce the Shanghai laboratory's position as one of the five major R&D centers of the Group. It will employ 150 ...

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28-02-2008

Nance Dicciani, president and chief executive officer of Honeywell Specialty Materials, has been nominated for election to the Praxair Board of Directors. If elected by the shareholders at Praxair's annual meeting in April, she will join the board effective September 1, 2008. In 2006, ...

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Integrated in European business structure

04-01-2007

Shimadzu is completing its European business restructuring process step by step and focusing on establishing independent companies in major markets and countries all over Europe. This structure forms part of the "Strategy of the Future" formulated in 2004 in order to better support new trends ...

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20-06-2005

Four new tenants plus several more interested parties - this is the result almost one year after the launch of the sector-specific technology center chem2biz. Back in mid-July 2004, Rhineland-Palatinate's economics minister, Hans-Artur Bauckhage, Ludwigshafen's mayor, Dr. Eva Lohse, and Dr. ...

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NCI, Subsidiary of Sinopec, identified as the appropriate potential partner

14-05-2004

Solvay announces today that it has signed a Letter of mutual interest with Nanjing Chemical Industries (NCI), a unit of China PetroChemical Corporation (Sinopec), aiming at setting up a joint venture for the operation of NCI's soda ash plant in Lianyungang, China. Both parties will now enter ...

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Entry into the forward-looking market of ionic liquids

25-07-2003

Degussa AG of Dusseldorf, Germany, has entered the forward-looking market in ionic liquids. Its subsidiary Creavis Technologies & Innovation has gained an interest in the Cologne, Germany-based start-up Solvent Innovation, a leading supplier in the development, production and marketing of ...

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