11.12.2017
- Univar’s wholly owned subsidiaries in Sweden and Norway have agreed to acquire Kemetyl Industrial Chemicals for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close in early...
11.12.2017
- US additives and instruments supplier BYK, which is part of German specialty chemicals group Altana, will invest $50 million to expand its facility in Gonzales, Texas. BYK is to...
11.12.2017
- As the end of 2017 nears, Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industry is in a positive mood, thanks in particular to a buoyant performance by its main customers in Europe, but...
08.12.2017
- The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit on Dec. 5 seeking to block Tronox’s acquisition of the titanium dioxide (TiO2) business of Saudi Arabia’s Cristal. The US TiO2...
08.12.2017
- Confirming reports circulating earlier in the day that a deal was imminent, BASF announced on Dec. 7 that it had signed a letter of intent with LetterOne (L1) to merge its oil and...
08.12.2017
- After making waves by branching out into several new fields recently, Ineos is turning again to shale gas while widening its corporate franchise into third-party shipping. The...
07.12.2017
- DuPont, a subsidiary of newly merged DowDuPont, is collaborating with Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical to accelerate the development, registration and commercialization of seed-applied...
07.12.2017
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green light to Netherlands-domiciled, US-managed generic drugmaker Mylan’s Ogivri (trastuzumab-dkst) breast cancer drug, a...
07.12.2017
- Grangemouth, Scotland, home to now-Swiss olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos and before that a base for British oil multinational BP, has had a mixed relationship with chemicals...
06.12.2017
- Germany’s Evonik and Dow Chemical – the latter is part of newly merged DowDuPont – have decided to terminate their StoHaas acrylic acid joint venture with effect from Dec. 31, 2017...
