23.02.2016
- Polymer Solutions Group (PSG), part of US private equity group Arsenal Capital Partners, has acquired Flow Polymers, a leading specialty additives and dispersions producer. Flow...
22.02.2016
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant is to invest more than 7.5 million Swiss francs over a five-year period to expand its masterbatch manufacturing capabilities. The...
22.02.2016
- As they move toward their $130 million mega merger, forecast to take place by the end of this year, DuPont and Dow Chemical have announced Wilmington, Delaware, USA, as the...
19.02.2016
- The United Arab Emirates is gaining popularity as a manufacturing base for pharmaceuticals, according to the country’s health ministry. Speaking to journalists at the recent Pharma...
19.02.2016
- Momentive Performance Materials is expanding capacity of NXT silanes at Leverkusen, Germany. Approximately $30 million is being invested in the expansion which is expected to go...
18.02.2016
- France’s environment ministry has once again postponed its deadline for removing thin plastic bags thinner than 50 microns from the market. It is the third deadline extension this...
18.02.2016
- BASF has accepted AkzoNobel’s offer of €475 million for the German chemical giant’s industrial coatings business. The two companies said they plan to finalize and sign the required...
17.02.2016
- Construction work has started in Saudi Arabia on a new masterbatch plant for Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant. The facility in Yanbu will focus on the production of...
17.02.2016
- Germany’s Merck KGaA has signed a new framework agreement with Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, extending their partnership for another three years with the option for...
15.02.2016
- Major UK drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been fined more than £37 million by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for anti-competitive behavior relating to generic...