25.10.2012
- Road Map - Outwardly, at least Thierry Le Hénaff is unruffled by the prospect that French chemical producer Arkema --- along with similar sized-players in Germany and The...
18.10.2012
- Cash-strapped Europeans are cutting back on decorating, leading Dutch group AkzoNobel to take a €2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) writedown on its 2008 purchase of Dulux paint maker ICI...
09.10.2012
- AkzoNobel has won this year's European Responsible Care award, just weeks after being ranked top of the Chemicals supersector in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Awarded by the...
18.09.2012
- Dutch group AkzoNobel, the world's largest paints maker and owner of the Dulux brand, said chief executive Ton Büchner was taking medical leave for a few weeks for fatigue. "This...
17.09.2012
- AkzoNobel has cemented its position as a global sustainability leader after being ranked in first place in the Chemicals supersector on the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability...
29.08.2012
- AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals and Brenntag have entered into a cooperation to commercialize AkzoNobel's anti-caking agent Ecosel mTA in the salt de-icing markets. The agreement...
31.07.2012
- AkzoNobel has reached an agreement to sell its 75.81% shareholding in ICI Pakistan to the Yunus Brothers Group for $152.5 million (€124.4 million). The price is subject to...
19.07.2012
- Business in Great Britain - Since 2008, the UK chemical industry has gone through one of the biggest downturns in production of all the world's leading producers of chemicals. Now...
