04.04.2011
- Cash-rich Belgian chemicals group Solvay is betting on emerging markets exposure and specialty chemicals with a €3.4 billion ($4.8 billion) cash bid for French group Rhodia. Monday...
07.12.2010
- France's Arkema plans to buy parts of Total's specialty chemicals business for €550 million ($729 million) to expand its coatings resins unit and boost its presence in Asia. Arkema...
- Arkema has turned ecotechnologies into reality with increasingly efficient materials that are key to the competitiveness of its downstream markets: the growing use of renewable raw...
28.06.2010
- Arkema and SolVin (a joint venture between Solvay and BASF) have decided to each buy back the minority cross-holdings in the vinyls joint venntures, effective July 1. This affects...
31.05.2010
- Arkema has announced that it now has received Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval for commercial sales of its Graphistrength multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the U.S...
28.01.2010
- Following Arkema's finalization of its acquisition of Dow assets, the company has announced that the Clear Lakes (Texas) Acrylic Monomers production site is being integrated into...
15.12.2009
- Prospect - Through reorganizations, divestments, acquisitions, targeted investments, and a committed innovation drive, France's chemicals producer Arkema has steadily kept up its...
14.12.2009
- Effective July 1, Jean-Francois Chesneau is being appointed Vice President Raw materials purchasing for the Arkema Group. Jean-Francois Chesneau joined the Arkema Group in 2005 as...
