19.05.2011
- Chemical maker Ashland raised its quarterly dividend to 17.5 cents a share - up 17% from its prior payout rate. Last month, the company had posted higher-than-expected second...
19.05.2011
- Momentive Performance Materials Holdings has put its formaldehyde and resins unit on the block and the unit could be valued at between $800 million to $1 billion, several sources...
19.05.2011
- Fertilizer producer CF Industries Holdings Inc has benefited from rival Mosaic's legal troubles at a Florida phosphate mine expansion, CF's CEO said on Tuesday. Last summer, the...
19.05.2011
- Bidders emerged for allergy-testing company Phadia and diagnostic test-maker Gen-Probe, according to The Wall Street Journal. Laboratory equipment company Thermo Fisher Scientific...
19.05.2011
- U.S. solar equipment maker GT Solar International received a $228 million order from South Korea's OCI, sending its shares up as much as 9% to a more than 2-1/2-year high. The...
19.05.2011
- General Electric Chief Executive Jeff Immelt wants to reduce the largest U.S. conglomerate's share count to the level it was before he sold new shares to raise cash during the...
19.05.2011
- French oil services group Technip and BASF are mulling a partnership giving the German chemical company access to Technip's engineering resources for capital investments mainly in...
18.05.2011
- Takeda Pharmaceutical, Japan's largest drugmaker, will announce the 1 trillion yen ($12 billion) purchase of closely held Swiss rival Nycomed on Wednesday as it seeks to expand in...
18.05.2011
- Israeli holding company Koor Industries reported a decline in quarterly profit on Tuesday, after the year-earlier period was boosted by a large tax benefit. Koor, which holds 3.21%...
18.05.2011
- The world's top chemicals distributors, including Germany's Brenntag, are circling Belgium-based Azelis, three people familiar with the matter said. Rival chemicals distributors...
