Press Releases

14 February 2012 – Infineum will commence construction of a new salicylate manufacturing facility at its Jurong Island site in Singapore in the first quarter of 2012. This is the single largest investment that Infineum has made in its history. Chiyoda Singapore (Pte.) Limited. has been appointed to carry out the detailed engineering, procurement and [...]

13 February 2012 – Lonza, one of the world’s leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries, announced today the launch of their new corporate website. The new website reflects a modern and innovative design to represent Lonza’s complete life science offering. The streamlined navigation provides customers, suppliers and shareholders with a simple [...]

08 February 2012 – Lonza today announced an investment into a new manufacturing concept, offering increased flexibility and capacity for production that uses continuous flow and microreactor technologies. The manufacturing concept which will be established at its Visp, Switzerland site, will help Lonza serve its customers better in both the development and manufacture of APIs. [...]

8 February 2012 – The Green Trucks Toolkit was developed by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) with support from Asian Development Bank to assist trucks companies reduce fuel use and emissions from their truck fleets. Freight is the backbone of economic trade in Asia and by 2050 Asia will account for 29% [...]

31 January 2012 – From 2012 onwards, Henkel is purchasing certificates for sustainable palm kernel oil for its entire range of laundry and home care products. This ensures that for the quantity of palm kernel oil used in the production of the surfactants for Henkel´s detergents and cleaning products a corresponding quantity of sustainable palm [...]

30 January 2012 – With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is increasing its European sales prices for ethanolamines (EOA) as follows: Monoethanolamine (MEOA) + 60 EUR/ mt Diethanolamine (DEOA) + 60 EUR/ mt Triethanolamine (TEOA) + 60 EUR/ mt or by the equivalent amounts in local currency. The price increase will also [...]

30 January 2012 – Following the Total Group’s recent organization, the Management Committee of the newly created Refining-Chemicals division, led by Patrick Pouyanné, consists of: Xavier Bontemps, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing & Projects, Nathalie Brunelle, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Development, Research, Graeme Burnett, Senior Vice President, Refining-Petrochemicals Americas, Bertrand Deroubaix, General Secretary, Philippe Doligez, Senior [...]

30 January 2012 – Following the Total Group’s recent organization, the Management Committee of the newly created Supply-Marketing division, led by Philippe Boisseau, consists of: Odile de Damas-Nottin, Senior Vice President, Human Resources1, François Dehodencq, Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific, Miguel del Marmol, Senior Vice President, Supply Logistics, Francis Jan, Senior Vice President, Specialties, Latin America/Caribbean, [...]

12 January 2012 – BP today announced that E10 blended petrol is to be reintroduced at 48 service stations in South East Queensland. The process of converting from Regular Unleaded to E10 will commence on 16th January 2012 and should be completed by mid February 2012. The conversion process may require certain service stations to [...]

10 January 2012 – AkzoNobel has today completed its acquisition of China’s leading specialty surfactant producer, Boxing Oleochemicals. Boxing is a leading supplier of nitrile amines and derivatives, which are used in a variety of industrial and consumer applications including fabric softeners, asphalt additives, and hair conditioners. The acquisition will further strengthen AkzoNobel’s leadership position [...]