On May 27, 2011 BASF and Ineos signed a joint venture contract, which regulates the formation of the planned joint venture company Styrolution. The EU Commission has approved the formation subject to the requirement that the parties sell an ABS production site in Tarragona, Spain.

Samsung's new Joint-Venture with Quintiles Transnational is about to bear fruit: on May 27th a groundbreaking ceremony for a biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in the free economic zone at Incheon, Korea, was held.

Blue Tech Research indentifies US aeration energy guzzlers in wastewater report. The report highlights the potential for growth in the low energy treatment technologies market worldwide.

Crestwood Equity Partners and First Reserve announced that Crestwood Permian Basin Holdings has agreed to acquire Crestwood’s Willow Lake gathering and processing assets located in Eddy County, New Mexico.

Ineos Styrolution has sold its StyLight thermoplastic composite materials business to Ensinger. With this move, Ensinger intends to become one of the only manufacturers to offer the complete value chain of thermoplastic composite products.

Cabot has committed to build a new world-class fumed silica plant in Carrollton, Kentucky.

Eurochem has signed an agreement with American Plant Food for supplying fertilisers to its blending business. The fertiliser company will supply mixed shipments of N, P and K fertilisers to APF for handling, marketing, sales and distribution.

Sinopec has recently completed the construction of China’s maiden megaton carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project – the Qilu-Shengli Oilfield CCUS. With this, the company plans to reduce carbon emissions by 1 million tons annually.

Solvay has completed the divestment of its cellulose acetate tow business, Acetow, to private equity funds managed by Blackstone.

Small is beautiful: The Glass Filter Dryer GFD is a smaller version of a production filter dryer allowing lab scale filtration and drying with the same reliability and benefits as full size agitated nutsche filter dryers.