Hydro Systems Company

Chemicalwatch | April 28, 2020

Meetings of the UN's conventions on chemicals and waste will be held online in June as a consequence of the international travel restrictions and confinement measures in place to contain the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic, according to the convention secretariat's executive secretary Rolph Payet. The bureau meeting for the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), set to be held on 10 June in Geneva, should see a relatively smooth transition online, Dr Payet told Chemi...

Agilis Chemicals | October 01, 2020

Agilis Chemicals, a leading provider of commerce platform for the chemical industry, announced today a collaboration with UL, a leading safety science company. As part of the collaboration agreement, Agilis shall extend its flagship commerce platform to more than 4500 suppliers and hundreds of thousands of end-users of chemicals on the UL Prospector® platform, the largest network of chemical buyers and suppliers in the world....

Products and Technologies

Westlake Chemical Corporation | February 01, 2022

Westlake Chemical Corporation today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Hexion Inc.’s global epoxy business for approximately $1.2 billion in an all-cash transaction. Based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, the epoxy business, which will be branded as Westlake Epoxy, is an industry leader in the manufacture and development of specialty resins, coatings and composites for a variety of industries, including high-growth and sustainability-oriented end-uses such as wind turbine bla...

Chemical Management, Products and Technologies

Olin Corporation | January 11, 2023

On January 10, 2023, Olin Corporation and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. announced that Blue Water Alliance J.V., LLP had received all required regulatory approvals and is beginning operations. Olin and Mitsui announced Blue Water Alliance (BWA) as a joint venture in March 2022. Headquartered in Houston, TX, USA, BWA combines Mitsui's industry-leading global logistics, long-established supplier and customer relationships, and breadth of the product portfolio with Olin's scale, N...