17.04.2018
- For the global specialty chemicals sector, the past two years have been among the most exciting of the young millennium. Many mergers and acquisitions were in the spotlight in 2017...
27.03.2018
- AkzoNobel has sold its Specialty Chemicals business to private equity investor Carlyle in partnership with GIC, the largest of Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds, for an enterprise...
02.03.2018
- Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC) has successfully built its first chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in Germany. Until now, clients and jobsites of the Saxon plant manufacturer have...
21.02.2018
- A consortium that comprises AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, industrial gases group Air Liquide, Canadian cleantech company Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam has signed an agreement...
13.02.2018
- Interest in acquiring the Specialty Chemicals business Dutch coatings manufacturer AkzoNobel has put up for sale is shaping up to be more substantial than the company may have...
15.01.2018
- AkzoNobel is negotiating with three or four potential buyers of its Specialty Chemicals division, according to media reports. Last month, shareholders approved the proposed...
09.01.2018
- China continued to draw in investors. ExxonMobil Chemical signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement and an MoU with authorities in Huizhou to jointly evaluate plans for a...
08.01.2018
- The year just ended was marked by a flood of M&A activity also in the distribution sector. Leading the way, German giant Brenntag said it planned to acquire all shares of specialty...
