The merger will encourage further expansion in the crop protection field and also leverage the rich product portfolio as well as the established sales network of both the firms to move forward in a highly competitive market.

Topsoe has been awarded by Technip FMC a contract for license and basic engineering of two gas-based ammonia plants for Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan (Hurl).

Formosa has acquired several UV disinfection units for cooling water treatment at its nylon fibre plants in Taiwan from British based Hanovia. The use of UV technology brings huge benefits for the nylon production as company speakers explained.

Speciality chemicals company Lanxess can look back on a successful fiscal 2015 – despite a challenging market environment. Read the details of the company’s annual press conference.

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess and Saudi Aramco have announced the members of the Executive Board of Arlanxeo, their previously announced 50:50 synthetic rubber joint venture. As the antitrust approval process was completed earlier than expected, Arlanxeo will already launch on April 1, 2016.

Chevron Phillips Chemical sells its Ryton PPS business to Solvay: The Belgians take over the production assets for US $ 220 million. Ryton, a polyphenylene sulfide polymer was developed by Chevron in the 1970ies.

ThyssenKrupp Uhde and the Mongolian government reach agreement on coal-to-liquids plant and heat recovery coke making plant in Mongolia

According to data published by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the global chemical industry closed the second quarter of 2018 on a good note.

Lignin is one of the main components of woody plant parts. Embedded in the plant cell wall, the complex organic matter gives the wood its compressive and breaking strength. So far, lignin is mainly available as by-product in paper and pulp production and contaminated with sulfur. Researchers at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg now succeeded in recovering ultrapure lignin from residual wood.

Methionine is used as an essential amino acid, particularly in animal feed, that is currently based on petrochemical production. A newly developed enzymatic process has succeeded for the first time in using gaseous CO2 as a basic material for the production of a chemical mass product in a biotechnical reaction.