BASF plans to sell major parts of its fertilizers activities. This comprises production plants in Antwerp/Belgium and BASF’s 50 percent share of the joint venture PECRhin in Ottmarsheim/France.

Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated a manufacturing facility for polyisocyanates at Ankleshwar, in the state of Gujarat, India. With the investment of approximately €20 million, the company wants to expand its business in India and to participate in the strong growth of this local market for coatings and adhesives.

The Dow Chemical Company plans to build a propylene glycol (PG) plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, with a production capacity of up to 150 KTA.

How can you accelerate the pace in the Chemical Process Industry (CPI) and reduce time to market? The container concept developed within the framework of the Copiride Project provides some answers.

The trade fair duo drink technology India and International PackTech India were extremely successful with a visitor increase of 37 per cent. Held from September 25–27, 2014, around 10,250 trade visitors came to the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre, Mumbai to obtain information about solutions for the international packaging, package printing, processing, beverage and food industries.

Foster Wheeler was selected as engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) services provider for Lanxess new butadiene rubber facility in Singapore. The Swiss based engineering company had already provided the front-end engineering design for the plant, which expected to be the biggest of its kind globally.

Biotech, packaging and analytical innovations are about to make a drastic change for the food and beverage production. Companies are actively researching the effects of digitalisation, 3D-printing, big data or cloud solutions as well well as genetic engineering with effects that reach far beyond the f&b industry...

Solvay and United Chemical Company LLP (UCC) have jointly started to examine the construction of new hydrogen peroxide capacity in Kazakhstan.

Fluor Corporation announced its joint venture team, KPJV, has been selected by Tengizchevroil (TCO) to execute the front-end engineering and design for the Multi-Phase Pump Project in Kazakhstan.

Siemens sees digitalisation as the key driver for industrial growth: At the SPS IPC Drives the German electronics giant presented its new strategic focus on discrete and process industries.