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March 19, 2010
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Petah Tikva, Israel), the leading generics pharmaceutical company in the world, says it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ratiopharm...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Teva-to-Acquire-Ratiopharm-for-$4-9-Billion_25488.html March 16, 2010
Foster Wheeler has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Sasol for its previously announced Fischer-Tropsch wax expansion project at...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Foster-Wheeler-Awarded-Wax-Expansion-Contract-in-South-Africa_25432.html March 16, 2010
Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP; Casablanca), the global leader in phosphate rock and derivatives market, and Jacobs Engineering have formed an equally owned joint venture, Jacobs...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/OCP-and-Jacobs-Form-Engineering-Joint-Venture_25433.html March 15, 2010
Ineos is in preliminary discussions about the possibility of bringing in joint venture partners for, or selling, some of the company's assets, U.K. press reports say. The reports...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Ineos-in-Preliminary-Partnership-Discussions-with-Mideast-Investors_25396.html March 10, 2010
Linde says its Linde Gases division has expanded and upgraded its specialty gases production plant at Johannesburg, South Africa. The €1.12-million investment involved a complete...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/south_africa/Linde-Expands-Specialty-Gases-Facility-in-South-Africa_25263.html March 9, 2010
Operations at the Ras Laffan Olefins Co. (RLOC) ethylene unit in Ras Laffan, Qatar are expected to start this month, according to Chevron, parent of one of the joint venture partners in the project....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/qatar/Ras-Laffan-Olefins-Set-to-Start-This-Month_25257.html March 3, 2010
Dow Formulated Systems, a business unit of Dow Chemical that makes polyurethane and epoxy systems, says it plans to build and operate a plant at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia under a...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Dow-Plans-Polyol-Blends-Plant-in-Saudi-Arabia_25159.html March 1, 2010
Huntsman and Zamil Group (Riyadh) say they have completed construction of a previously announced ethyleneamines joint-venture plant at Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The 27,000-m.t./year...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Huntsman-and-Zamil-Complete-Ethyleneamines-JV-in-Saudi-Arabia_25086.html March 1, 2010
Arch Chemicals has expanded to the scope of its service agreement with Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation (OL&T; Danbury, CT) to include Arch's operations in Europe, the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/Arch-Expands-Logistics-Agreement_25120.html February 22, 2010
Reliance Industries has increased its bid by $1 billion to $14.5 billion for a controlling stake in LyondellBasell, local sources familiar with the situation say. Reliance declined to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Reliance-Industries-Ups-Bid-for-LyondellBasell_24909.html February 17, 2010
The plants will form part of a major chemical complex....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/egypt/Egyptian-Firm-Picks-Univations-PE-Process-for-Three-Production-Lines_24847.html February 12, 2010
KBR has been awarded a contract by Eleme Petrochemicals Co. (Port Harcourt, Nigeria) to revamp the company's 1995-vintage 550,000 m.t./year ethylene plant at Eleme, near Port Harcourt...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/KBR-to-Revamp-Nigerian-Cracker_24775.html February 10, 2010
Honam Petrochemical plans to spend won530 billion ($456.2 million) to expand its Yeosu, Korea petrochemical complex, CW has learned. The company will hike the capacity of its cracker...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Honam-Plans-Big-Expansion-of-Yeosu-Petchems-Complex_24676.html February 3, 2010
The unit will consume locally produced para-xylene....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Indian-Firm-Plans-PTA-Venture-in-Oman_24565.html February 2, 2010
Foster Wheeler says that it has agreed to form an engineering joint venture in Saudi Arabia with the local A. Al-Saihati, A. Fattani, and O. Al-Othman Consulting Engineering Co...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Foster-Wheeler-Forms-Engineering-Joint-Venture-in-Saudi-Arabia_24539.html January 28, 2010
Bayer CropScience has acquired certain assets and technologies of AgroGreen (Ashdod, Israel) relating to biological development products. The...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Bayer-CropScience-Buys-Biofungicide-Technology-from-Israeli-Firm_24405.html January 26, 2010
Zaklady Azotowe Pulawy (ZAP; Pulawy, Poland), the leading maker of fertilizers in Poland and one of the world's leading producers of melamine, has made a conditional offer to PKN Orlen...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Polish-Firm-Pulawy-Makes-Offer-to-Buy-Anwil-from-PKN-Orlen_24353.html January 26, 2010
Bayer MaterialScience says it has signed an agreement to provide sustainable construction materials to Masdar City, a sustainable city that is to be built near Abu Dhabi. The agreement...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Bayer-Signs-Deal-to-Provide-Sustainable-Building-Materials-to-Masdar_24361.html January 25, 2010
Civil engineering and trading company Ramco Trading & Contracting (Doha), currently in talks to buy polyvinyl chloride and vinyl chloride monomer producer Vinyls Italia (Porto...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Qatar-Engineering-Firm-to-Buy-ENI-Chlor-Alkali-Plants_24297.html January 25, 2010
Huntsman Corporation has announced that its indirect foreign subsidiaries that have been selling products to third parties in Iran will discontinue doing so and will exit any...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Huntsman-to-End-Sales-to-Iran_24333.html |
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