23.09.2014
- Bayer is said to have chosen investment bank Rothschild to advise on its plan for an initial public offering (ipo) of engineering plastics sub-group Bayer MaterialScience (BMS)...
23.09.2014
- In the biggest acquisition in the history of the family-owned company, Darmstadt Germany-based chemicals, pharmaceuticals and laboratory products manufacturer Merck KGaA is opening...
22.09.2014
- Through his hedge fund Trian, US activist investor Nelson Peltz, who has stirred up affairs at a number of other companies, has set his sights on breaking up chemical giant DuPont...
22.09.2014
- Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem has joined an existing collaboration of bio-based farnesene producer Amrys and tire manufacturer Michelin to develop and commercialise...
22.09.2014
- BASF has started up a new 155,000 t/y butadiene extraction plant at Antwerp, Belgium, complementing a 105,000 t/y unit at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, home base. The new facility...
19.09.2014
- After completing the front-end engineering and design contracts, Russian petrochemical giant Sibur said it is pressing ahead with previously announced plans for a $9.5 billion...
19.09.2014
- The decision by Swiss drugmaker Roche in August to buy US biotech company InterMune for $8.3 billion was "exceptional" and not a sign of more ambitious plans for major acquisitions...
19.09.2014
- DuPont is planning to invest more than $100 million in expanding output of ethylene copolymers output at its Texas plants over the next three to four years. Without providing...
18.09.2014
- In a move both expected and unexpected - at least in terms of its timing - Bayer has announced plans to float its engineering plastics arm, Bayer MaterialScience. In an ad hoc...
18.09.2014
- Univar has been selected by US-based Evonik Corporation, subsidiary of the German chemical producer, to be the exclusive distributor for its personal care products in the...
