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Huntsman Wins Proxy Fight with Starboard

29.03.2022 -

Huntsman has managed to rebuff a move by activist investor Starboard Value to appoint four members to the chemical company’s board. According to preliminary results from...

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Guterres Says Don’t Replace Russian Energy with more Fossil Fuel

29.03.2022 -

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has criticized Western governments’ race to replace Russian oil, gas and coal imports with “any available alternate fossil-based...

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Sonatrach and Chinese Partners Plan Algerian Phosphates Project

28.03.2022 -

Algerian firms Asmidal, a subsidiary of state-owned oil group Sonatrach, and Manal have signed an agreement with Chinese firms Wuhuan Engineering and Yunnan Tain'An...

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Roquette Plans €25 Million Polyols Project

28.03.2022 -

French firm Roquette has announced plans to spend €25 million to upgrade its liquid and powder polyols plant in Lestrem between 2022 and 2024. Roquette said the...

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China said Worried About Sanctions on Russian JVs

28.03.2022 -

Chinese oil and petrochemicals giant Sinopec is planning what it says is its highest capital spending budget in corporate history for 2022 after posting its highest...

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Fujifilm Buys Shenandoah Biotechnology

25.03.2022 -

Fujifilm Irvine Scientific, part of Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings, will acquire Shenandoah Biotechnology, a US-based, privately held manufacturer of recombinant proteins...

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Total Says it Can’t Cut all Ties with Russia

24.03.2022 -

TotalEnergies announced on Mar. 22 that it would stop buying Russian oil by the end of 2022 and refrain from concluding any new investment projects in the country. A day...

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Barentz Buys France’s Unipex

24.03.2022 -

Dutch-based multinational distributor Barentz will acquire Unipex, a French-headquartered distributor of life science and specialty chemicals, for an undisclosed sum. The...