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Praxair Buys Stake in Middle East Company

Genzyme Rejects Sanofi-Aventis' $18.5 billion Offer

Lonza Acquires Viral Vaccine and Vector Manufacturer Vivante GMP Solutions

EU Regulator Reviews Safety of Glaxosmithkline Swine Flu Jab

Ivorian Rubber Producer SAPH H1 Profit Soars

No Threat From Potash Bid Battle

Roche Says No Decision on Job Cuts This Week

Sanofi Makes $69 per Share Genzyme Offer

IMCD Announces Strategic Distribution Co-operation with Dow Microbial Control

Columbian Chemicals Company Enters New Territories with IMCD

Univar Entity in Egypt Fully Operational

Simona With Significant Growth in Sales Volume and Revenue During First Half of 2010

Novartis to Push Ahead With Disputed Alcon Buyout

EU Sees Limit on Industrial Projects in Co2 Scheme

Tarak Mehta to Join Executive Committee as Head of ABB’s Low Voltage Products

DSM Appoints New Director for Strategy and Acquisitions

Sanofi Top Two Shareholders Seen Wary on Genzyme Bid

Reliance and D.E. Shaw in $800 Million Infra Fund Talks

Glencore Profit Surges on Metals Price Rebound

Oil India Eyes Shale Gas Acquisition Overseas

Sanofi Won't Go Above $70 per Share for Genzyme

Lanxess Sponsors Largest European Chemistry Congress

Air Products Files Hart-Scott-Rodino Notification for Acquisition of Airgas

Air Products to Build New Air Separation Unit in Gent, Belgium

Lyondellbasell to End Iran Operations

Roche Signs Up to $1.1 Billion Drug Deal with Aileron

Chemical Organizations Issue Calendar for International Year of Chemistry

According to the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) in 2011, the European Young Chemists Network (EYCN), the German Jungchemikerforum (JCF) and the society for chemistry and economics (VCW), the latter sections of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), decided to contribute to the IYC 2011 by offering a calendar, illustrating chemistry in life.

Fluctuating Raw Material Prices

Before the economic crisis, raw material prices knew only one direction: upwards. The sky seemed to be the limit.

Georg Fischer Accelerates its Expansion in China

Brenntag Closes Acquisition of EAC Industrial Ingredients

BASF to Build Dispersions Plant in Huizhou to Better Serve Growing Markets in South China

Evonik to Expand Production Capacities in China

Genzyme, Sanofi at Odds Over Threshold Price

Potash Holds Talks With Sinochem

Roche Buys Bioimagene for $100 Million, Boosts Diagnostics