21.03.2019
- GCP Applied Technologies, once part of US technology and chemical company W.R. Grace, has adopted a stockholder rights plan – or poison pill – to prevent activist hedge fund 40...
21.03.2019
- Vienna, Austria-based polyolefins and fertilizer producer Borealis has tapped Italian engineering firm Maire Tecnimont as contractor for the new 750,000 t/y propane dehydrogenation...
21.03.2019
- US green technology company Anellotech and its French joint development partners IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) and Axens have successfully recovered high-purity bio-based...
20.03.2019
- Safic-Alcan UK, subsidiary of the French Safic-Alcan group, has acquired 100% of Langley-Smith, a specialty chemicals distributor with a focus on adhesives, paint and coatings...
20.03.2019
- Major chemical distributor Brenntag has agreed to form a 51:49 joint venture with Singapore-based Tee Hai Chem. Teehai provides raw materials and high-purity specialty chemicals to...
20.03.2019
- Tronox has signed an agreement to sell Cristal’s North American titanium dioxide (TiO2) business to Ineos for $700 million in a bid to gain US clearance for its proposed merger...
20.03.2019
- In the first round of a trial that could be a bellwether for future cases involving the controversial herbicide ingredient glyphosate, a federal court jury in San Francisco has...
19.03.2019
- In the run-up to the demerger of DowDuPont between April and June of this year, the future ”new DuPont” has announced plans to spend $220 million on expanding capacity for its...
19.03.2019
- SABIC has announced plans to merge its two wholly owned subsidiaries Saudi Petrochemical (SADAF) and Arabian Petrochemical (Petrokemya) as part of a strategic transformation plan...
19.03.2019
- The race to acquire Bayer’s animal health business appears to be heating up. According to the Bloomberg news agency, quoting sources, the German group stands to take in as much as...
