Keyword: Clariant

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Activist Investors Try to Wedge Clariant and Huntsman Apart

05.07.2017 - Activist investors unhappy with the merger plans of Clariant and Huntsman have joined forces to torpedo it. The Corvex hedge fund of Keith Meister – a protégé of billionaire...

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Clariant and Huntsman to Merge

23.05.2017 - Another industry mega-merger has been announced, this time between Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant and US chemical company Huntsman. The multi-billion all-stock deal...

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European Firms to Develop Bio-isobutene Chain

16.05.2017 - Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU), a public-private partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), is backing a new project in which French...

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CB&I wins Formosa Cumene/Phenol Upgrade

12.05.2017 - US engineering contractor CB&I has won a contract from Formosa Chemicals and Fibre for the license and engineering design of a cumene and phenol expansion in Ningbo, China. CB&I...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Can Flow Chemistry Replace Batch Processes?

27.04.2017 - The notion of transforming process engineering production from the batch principle to continuous flow processes based on micro- and milli-reactors may not always be so easy for...

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BASF Sells Leather Chemicals Unit to Stahl

24.03.2017 - After previous unsuccessful efforts to divest its leather business, BASF has found a buyer in the Netherlands-based Stahl Group. To facilitate a deal, the German chemical giant has...

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Christian Kullman Named to Head Evonik

02.03.2017 - Christian Kullmann will become chairman of the managing board of German chemical producer Evonik and chief executive officer following the company’s annual shareholders meeting on...

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W.R. Grace Wins China PP Project

20.02.2017 - US chemical and catalysts producer W.R. Grace has announced that it was contracted in the fourth quarter of 2016 to license its Unipol PP gas-phase process technology to China’s...