30.07.2019
- New York-based US drugs giant Pfizer is merging its off-patent franchise, Upjohn, with generics specialist Mylan. The deal announced on Jul. 29 and expected to close in mid-2020...
30.07.2019
- Nouryon has acquired Zhejiang Friend Chemical, China’s largest producer of triethyl aluminum (TEAL) – a metal alkyl used in the production of high-volume polymers, such as PP and...
29.07.2019
- South African energy and chemicals group Sasol has selected Chile’s Enaex, a subsidiary of the Sigdo Koppers Group, as its preferred partner to negotiate terms and conditions for...
26.07.2019
- Up until recently, the Oqema Group was represented in Switzerland with a branch in Stansstad on the banks of Lake Lucerne, which primarily promoted contract business around the...
24.07.2019
- Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant has agreed to sell its healthcare packaging business to a newly formed affiliate of US private equity group Arsenal Capital Partners for...
24.07.2019
- Leon, Spain-based ADL Bionatur Solutions and Amyris of Emeryville, California, USA, have extended an existing production agreement that foresees ADL producing up to five fermented...
23.07.2019
- US private equity group Yellow Wood Partners has agreed to acquire the Dr. Scholl’s footcare business from Bayer for $585 million. Following completion of the transaction in this...
22.07.2019
- Austrian oil and gas group OMV has announced its intention to invest €64 million in an isobutene plant at its Burghausen refinery in Germany. The facility will use a new technology...
19.07.2019
- In a major expansion project, Nouryon has doubled its capacity for dicumyl peroxide (DCP), an organic peroxide, in Ningbo, China. The former AkzoNobel specialty chemicals business...
19.07.2019
- In its first acquisition so far this year, AkzoNobel has agreed to buy French aerospace coatings manufacturer Mapaero for an undisclosed sum. Based in Pamiers, southwestern France...
