Basell Chemicals Friday announced a restructuring plan and projects to improve the efficiency of the two world-scale polypropylene plants at its Sulphur Plant. "In order to achieve best-in-class ...

A labor union pension fund has sued Houston's Lyondell Chemical Co. for entering into a deal this month to sell the company for what it said is too low a price. The Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 51 ...

The international petrochemicals crowd is anxious for details about the future of Basell Polyolefins, the world's largest polypropylene maker, but President and Chief Executive Officer Volker Trautz ...

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2005--BASF and Shell Chemicals are to sell their 50-50 joint venture Basell, one of the world's leading manufacturers of polyolefins, to a ...

NEW YORK – Chemicals and plastics maker Basell said Tuesday it would buy Lyondell Chemical Co. (LYO) for about $12.72 billion, continuing a wave of consolidation in the chemical industry and giving ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Huntsman announced late on Tuesday that it had received a rival proposal from Hexion Specialty Chemicals, owned ...

In recent years, hedge fund managers like John Paulson and David Tepper, have pulled off some of the greatest trades of all time by doing things like betting against mortgage-backed securities and ...

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY (Oct. 28, 6:30 a.m. EST) – Basell Polyolefins quietly is dropping its Hivalloy resin product line, after trying for nearly a decade to commercialize the high-performance olefinic ...

Basell, a division of billionaire investor Leonard Blavatnik’s Access Industries, said Tuesday it will acquire rival chemical company Huntsman Corp. in a cash deal worth $5.6 billion. Under the terms ...

HOOFDDORP, Netherlands, and HOUSTON, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Basell, the global leader in polyolefins, and Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE: LYO), one of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Basell, the Dutch plastics producer, is in the market with what will be the biggest high-yield bond issue in ...

Bob Patel, chairman and CEO of Houston petrochemicals maker LyondellBasell, joined the company in 2010 after 20 years at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. At the time, LyondellBasell had been in ...