10.03.2017
- Maroon Group has acquired Lincoln Fine Ingredients, a specialty chemicals distributor based in Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA, serving the personal care, cosmetic, food & beverage...
06.03.2017
- Major US chemicals distributor Nexeo Solutions has agreed with K.D. Feddersen – a German-based engineering thermoplastics distributor – to acquire inventory and service customers...
24.02.2017
- European industry is turning up the heat on the EU’s institutions to finally come up with a plan to help manufacturers become more competitive. In a joint paper, called the “Joint...
22.02.2017
- Sadara Chemical Company, a 50:50 joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical, has signed a cooperation agreement with Saudi National Automobiles Manufacturing Company (SNAM)...
17.02.2017
- A while back, I saw a horrific Facebook video of a massive explosion at a processing facility in Mexico that killed 30 people and injured 46. Among the many comments on that post...
17.02.2017
- Few in the chemical industry would have predicted that Swiss-British petrochemicals group Ineos would diversify into car production, though its chairman, Jim Ratcliffe, is often...
16.02.2017
- DuPont and Chemours (the US chemical giant’s former Performance Materials segment) have agreed to jointly pay $670.7 million in cash to settle out of court around 3,550 personal...
15.02.2017
- The UK’s Elementis has agreed to acquire US specialty chemicals company SummitReheis from an affiliate of private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners for $360 million. The...
07.02.2017
- Ten years ago, in March 2007, oxo chemicals producer Oxea was established as a buyout led by private-equity firm Advent International of oxo derivatives and oxo intermediates...
01.02.2017
- In a meeting at the White House on Jan. 31, new US president, Donald Trump, held out both a carrot and a stick to pharmaceutical producers. The industry will “have to “get prices...
