18.02.2015
- Arkema has extended until January 2016 its call option to increase its share in Sunke, the acrylics joint venture with Jurong Chemical in China. Exercising the option would give...
10.02.2015
- Arkema has completed its acquisition of adhesives producer Bostik for an undisclosed sum. The US company with annual sales of just over €1.5 billion and nearly 5,000 employees...
03.02.2015
- Effective 3 February 2015, Bernard Pinatel, currently CEO of Bostik, is being appointed a member of Arkema's Executive Committee. He will succeed Pierre Chanoine who is retiring...
03.02.2015
- French chemical producer Arkema has started up its new €200 million thiochemicals platform at Kerteh, Malaysia. The business produces methyl mercaptan for use as a synthesis...
22.01.2015
- French specialty chemicals producer Arkema said it has successfully wrapped up financing for its acquisition of German adhesives manufacturer Bostik from its former parent company...
24.09.2014
- French chemical producer Arkema has offered to acquire German adhesives manufacturer Bostik from its former parent company, oil and petrochemicals major Total. Arkema did not say...
10.09.2014
- French chemical producer Arkema has begun consultation with employees of its fluorogas production at Zamarillo, Spain, about closing the facility, which produces HFC R32 and R143a...
02.09.2014
- Currently, we do not get around technology presentations without the Internet of Things (IoT) praised as one of the drivers of future growth. There are billions of units of devices...
