28.10.2010
- Demand for BASF's products continued to be high in the third quarter of 2010. There was hardly any sign of the usual seasonal slowdown and the capacity utilization rate was high...
LANXESS Deutschland GmbH - The polyamide 66 Durethan DP AKV 30 FN00 from specialty chemicals group Lanxess is proving extremely successful as a material for flame-retardant components in consumer electronics...
28.10.2010
- Industrial gas supplier Airgas said it is willing to negotiate a buyout by rival Air Products at a price greater than $70 per share, or $5.86 billion, more than 7% higher than the...
28.10.2010
- GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $750 million and plead guilty to manufacturing and distributing adulterated drugs from a now closed plant in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Justice...
20.10.2010
- Wacker has announced the inauguration of its new silicone-polymer plant at Zhangjiagang (China). The plant manufactures not only intermediates, but also downstream silicone...
18.10.2010
- A consortium of South Korea's Samsung Engineering and Germany's Linde has won an early construction deal for a Saudi-based acrylic acid complex expected to cost 4 billion riyals (...
18.10.2010
- Clariant announced that it will be relocating the headquarters of its Textile Chemicals business unit to Singapore. The company said the move, which is due to be completed by mid...
14.10.2010
- Wacker Chemie AG subsidiary Wacker Chemicals Korea is acquiring the Lucky Silicone brand from Henkel Technologies (Korea) Ltd. The two companies announced a purchase agreement...
14.10.2010
- As Sanofi-Aventis hunkers down for a long battle to buy Genzyme, the specter of a new proxy battle for control of the U.S. biotech will become an increasingly real threat...
Styron Europe GmbH - Styron has announced the launch of a new polycarbonate grade for polycarbonate sheet producers in Europe. XZ94261.00, which will be commercialized at a later date as CALIBRE 502-3...
