SERVICES

Dow Forms Alliance With Tata Consultancy Services

Dow Chemical says it has formed an alliance with Tata Consultancy Services (Mumbai) to provide operational support services to Dow’s global businesses. Services include supply chain scheduling and planning; invoicing and data management; and accounts...

Cognis Completes UV Acrylates Sale

Cognis has completed the sale of its UV acrylates business to IGM Resins (Waalwijk, the Netherlands), the companies say. The deal was first...

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Engineering & Construction

Shaw Awarded Contract for Ethylene Expansion in Turkey

The client is Petkim Petrokimiya....

Transportation

Chemicals Sector Rail Traffic Rises 5%

Chemicals sector rail traffic in North America rose 5% year-on-year last week, to 45,451 cars, the Association of American Railroads (AAR; Washington)...

Distribution

ACC, Accenture Study: Chemical Quality Becomes the Important Issue

A study by ACC and Accenture has identified that product quality and reliability of supply – not price of goods – are the most important factors when it comes to selecting or growing with a supplier. The study by the two groups compared the...

Information Technology

Hosted CRM for Chemical Firms?

A free guide for comparing providers of hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems has been released by...

Environmental

BASF, Inpex, JGC to Jointly Test CCS Technology in Japan

BASF, energy firm Inpex (Tokyo), and engineering firm JGC (Yokohama, Japan) say they have jointly entered into an agreement to carry out demonstration tests on the effectiveness of a novel carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to capture and recover CO2...

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