06.10.2014
- Sigma-Aldrich, the US life sciences and laboratory chemicals producer in the process of being acquired by Germany's Merck KGa for $17 billion, has agreed to buy Cell Marque, a...
06.10.2014
- Mitsubishi Chemical has signed a feedstock supply agreement with Chinese state-owned oil company CNOOC to put its local production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA) on a more...
06.10.2014
- In a deal said to be worth £54 million, Swiss-based petrochemicals giant Ineos plans to buy out Finnish energy company Fortrum to take control of a gas-fired combined heat and...
06.10.2014
- Germany has switched on Europe's largest commercial battery plant, an installation powered by 25,600 lithium-ion batteries and designed to help stabilize the country's growing...
06.10.2014
- At least one soybean exporter in Brazil has agreed with Monsanto to collect royalties from farmers who planted the company's genetically engineered seeds, industry sources have...
06.10.2014
- Dow Chemical has confirmed recent reports that it planned to shed three more businesses toward its target of divesting assets worth $4.5-6 billion by 2015. In late August, reports...
06.10.2014
- The European Commission has given its final approval for Huntsman's planned acquisition of Rockwood's Performance Additives and Titanium Dioxide businesses. In September, the EC...
06.10.2014
- German chemical distributor Brenntag has opened an Oil & Gas application center in Jankowice, Poland. The facility is directly connected with Brenntag's existing blending plant...
06.10.2014
- Bayer has closed its $14.2 billion acquisition of US Merck & Co's $2.2 billion consumer care business after the transaction was approved by anti-trust authorities in all markets...
06.10.2014
- Germany's BASF and US-based Smart Planet Technologies are discussing plans to collaborate on developing the California firm's EarthCoating mineralized coating technology for...
